Sentences with phrase «propulsion laboratory used»

In the second report, researchers led by Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used remote sensing and radar data to calculate the glaciers» movement.

11 The $ 125 million Mars Climate Orbiter crashed on the Red Planet because the Jet Propulsion Laboratory used metric units, while engineers at Lockheed Martin used feet and pounds.

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However, two astronomers — Gianluca Masi of The Virtual Telescope Project and Michael Schwartz of Tenagra Observatories, Ltd. — managed to track down the Tesla using orbit data provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The result is a repulsive effect, which was used by Yuanming Liu and colleagues at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to lift a young mouse weighing 10 grams.

Thomas Yunck, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, had written the first proposal years earlier to use RO to develop weather and climate information from GPS signals.

«We are getting in some long drives using what we have learned,» said Jim Erickson, Curiosity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Donald Argus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and colleagues used 15 years of GPS data to show that parts of the Ellsworth mountains in west Antarctica are rising by around 5 millimetres a year (Geophysical Research Letters, DOI: 10.1029 / 2011gl048025).

The team first tested the grippers in the Robo - Dome, a giant air hockey table at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where two 370 - kilogram robots gently pushed each other around using a small square of gecko gripper.

And Suzanne Smrekar, VEXAG co-chair and a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., wants to follow up on a 2010 finding in which she and her colleagues used Venus Express data to identify hot spots on the planet's surface — evidence for volcanism within the past few million years.

A concept called Comet Hitchhiker, developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, puts forth a new way to get into orbit and land on comets and asteroids, using the kinetic energy — the energy of motion — of these small bodies.

«For at least the immediate future, we don't plan to use either front wheel for steering,» said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.

The team of cosmologists from Harvard University, the University of Minnesota, the California Institute of Technology / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Stanford University / SLAC used BICEP2 to observe telltale patterns in the cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang almost 14 billion years ago — that support the leading theory about the origins of the universe.

At the time of its launch, Paul Goldsmith, Herschel project scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told ScientificAmerican.com that Herschel's infrared view of star birth would be «analogous to using ultrasound to seeing what is going on in a mother's womb.»

In a complementary study, planetary scientists Terrence Johnson of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona, Tucson, used Cassini data to calculate the relative proportions of rock and ice inside Phoebe.

Researchers Cathleen Jones and Ron Blom of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., analyzed interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imagery of the area acquired during flights of the agency's Uninhabited Airborne Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), which uses a C - 20A jet, in June 2011 and July 2012.

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

«This is a very exciting discovery, found by scouring the new generation of wide - area, sensitive surveys astronomers are conducting using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer in orbit and ground - based telescopes in Chile and Hawaii,» said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

The GPS signal used for «sat - navs» could help improve understanding of ocean currents, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the use of background checks by the government on scientists and other workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

The researchers tested its gecko - inspired grabber using pressurised air at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and in the temporary weightlessness of a parabolic plane flight.

Now George Null, William Owen and Stephen Synnott of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have used the Hubble Space Telescope to follow Pluto and Charon while the two worlds circled each other.

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Propulsion made an historic first with its experiment in a gas turbine combustor using X-rays.

Now a team led by Takashi Hosokawa at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has used computer simulations to show the gas clouds from which the stars formed would have been much hotter than thought.

This publication makes use of data products from the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, which is funded by NASA; the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center / California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA; and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Photometric All - Sky Survey (APASS), whose funding is provided by the Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund and the AAVSO Endowment (https://www.aavso.org/aavso-photometric-all-sky-survey-data-release-1).

When Neptune's newly determined mass was used in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Developmental Ephemeris (JPL DE), the supposed discrepancies in the Uranian orbit, and with them the need for a Planet X, vanished.

«Our study confirms that the dust is there, and that we can use it to determine how much energy was generated in the destruction of the star,» Varoujan Gorjian, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, who was part of the study led by van Velzen, said in the statement.

«ECOSTRESS will enable a detailed investigation into plant water use throughout the day,» says Josh Fisher, the mission's science lead at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «Furthermore, we'll be able to better understand how certain regions are being impacted by drought.

The discoveries were made using instruments fitted to telescopes at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego: the Robo - AO adaptive optics system, developed by the Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in India and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and the PALM - 3000 adaptive optics system, developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Caltech.

The Legacy Survey team makes use of data products from the Near - Earth Object Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology.

Scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) are using a replica of the upcoming InSight Mars lander to simulate conditions the spacecraft might face on the Red Planet's surface.

«Our flight plan around Ceres will be choreographed to be very similar to the strategy that we successfully used around Vesta,» said Bob Mase, Dawn's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. «This approach will build on that and enable scientists to make direct comparisons between these two giants of the asteroid belt.»

«It is exciting to use the power of NuSTAR to get important, unique information on these beasts, even in our cosmic backyard where they can be studied in detail,» Daniel Stern, NuSTAR project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, said.

As an example of what he was talking about, he mentioned a joint project with NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to allow PS4 owners to use Morpheus to feel like they're on Mars.

A new study, led by Son Nghiem at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and appearing this week in Geophysical Research Letters, used satellites and buoys to show that winds since 2000 had pushed huge amounts of thick old ice out of the Arctic basin past Greenland.

In the same issue of GRL, Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and collaborators describe the same acceleration using Interferometric SAR from RADARSAT.

«A significant improvement in determining which Grand Minima are important for climate change came with the work of Sharpe (2008) using Jet Propulsion Laboratory DE405 ephemeris data providing the results in Figs. 10 and 11.

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that its scientists, in conjunction with colleagues from the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), have used sounding radar — developed for a mission to Mars — to successfully locate underground aquifers, probe variations in the water table, and identify locations where water flowed into and out of the aquifers.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Snow Melt Equivalent data courtesy of Leanne Lestak / UC Boulder and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and MODIS data from LANCE / EOSDIS Rapid Response.

However, it will be used by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help control the Curiosity Mars Rover and offer scientists a more interactive way to view Mars.

Their products are used by Adobe, Microsoft, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with numerous accolades from Apple and Google.

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