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Observations at different wavelengths across the infrared spectrum allow us to piece together a three dimensional picture of how energy and material are transported upwards through the atmosphere.»
Not exact matches
The team made
observations at many
different wavelengths, optimised for
different features and cloud layers in Jupiter's atmosphere, to create the first global spectral maps of Jupiter taken from Earth.
«Only by combining the high quality
observations at very
different wavelengths could we do this and when we separated these energy sources the effect of the magnetic field was surprisingly clear.»
These new and unique
observations of the jets and estimates of magnetic field of V404 Cygni involved studying the body
at several
different wavelengths.
Prior
observations of extrasolar planets had detected elements by analyzing light passing through their atmospheres, but Richardson says this is the first measurement of the energy coming directly from the planets
at many
different wavelengths.
The number of planets discovered
at 500 nm (black curve) that could also be detected
at longer
wavelengths (colored curves), as desired for spectroscopic
observations, as a function of telescope aperture size and for two
different assumed inner working angles.
The new
observations show evidence that the star appears to have a
different size when seen
at different wavelengths.
Today, there are thousands of
observation points around the world
at different locations,
at different wavelengths,
different resolutions.