Sentences with phrase «space probes using»

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«When more - powerful detectors provide us with more observations,» Mészáros said, «we also will be able to use Fast Radio Bursts as a probe of their host galaxies, of the space between galaxies, of the cosmic - web structure of the universe, and as a test of fundamental physics.»

Several sails have been unfurled in space to test deployment, and spacecraft like NASA's Mercury probe, Messenger, have used the pressure of sunlight to alter trajectories.

The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

Russell suspects that ion propulsion was deemed too risky — it had never been used on a space probe.

The results were compared to observations carried out using the powerful Spitzer Space Telescope, probing our understanding of the conditions within the atmospheres of these planets.

Among their uses in a variety of specialized applications: generating power on space probes and cooling seats in fancy cars.

The NASA space probe Magellan spent four years mapping the surface of Venus, using a sensitive radar to peer through the sulphurous clouds that shroud the planet.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

The wafer can be used inside either an insulated handpiece for manual sampling or a longer probe for remote sampling of soil and spaces under buildings or in luggage or other containers.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

Murata sees future uses for M - TRAN's descendants as space rovers or deep - sea probes, as well as fearless explorers closer to home.

These include building a laser far larger than any we have today, developing techniques to use it as both propulsion and communication for the spacecraft, and protecting a tiny probe from the hostile environment of interstellar space.

Space probes beyond Earth orbit, designed for other uses, have been tasked with the vulcanoid search.

But high - flying volcanic debris frustrated space physicists» attempts to use Jupiter's powerful magnetic field as a probe of Io's interior.

«The dust distribution is a telltale sign of how dynamically interactive the inner system containing the ring is,» said Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona, Tucson, who used Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to probe and map the small dust particles in the outer reaches of the HR 4796A system, a survey that only Hubble's sensitivity can accomplish.

Astronomers using ESA's XMM - Newton space observatory have probed the gas - filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find «missing» matter thought to reside there, but have come up empty - handed — so where is it?

18 April 2018 Astronomers using ESA's XMM - Newton space observatory have probed the gas - filled haloes around galaxies in a quest to find «missing» matter thought to reside there, but have come up empty - handed — so where is it?

JPL was the lead institute on designing and building Cassini, and the probe was operated from JPL, using the facility's Deep Space Network.

Plus, there is now additional funding, $ 15 million, for the production of Plutonium - 238, which is used to power deep space probes.

The research from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is tSpace Studies (GISS), published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used topographical and atmospheric data collected by the Pioneer and Magellan space probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is tspace probes to create 3 - D climate simulations, filling in lowlands with water and accounting for an ancient sun 30 percent dimmer than it is today.

While probing space in depth — let us bear in mind that the further we look, the more we go back in time — ALMA detects the glow of tepid dust present in the most distant galaxies, i.e., the earliest ones, with better resolution than could be possible in the deepest observations using visible or infrared light.

The Space Plasma Physics Research Programme carries out experimental research in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on space prSpace Plasma Physics Research Programme carries out experimental research in space plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on space prspace plasma physics using data from instruments on satellites, and in the future also on space prspace probes.

«Using space VLBI, we can probe the cores of quasars and active galaxies, believed to be powered by super massive black holes,» said Dr. Robert Preston, project scientist for the U.S. Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project atspace VLBI, we can probe the cores of quasars and active galaxies, believed to be powered by super massive black holes,» said Dr. Robert Preston, project scientist for the U.S. Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry project atSpace Very Long Baseline Interferometry project at JPL.

A classroom activity in which students use data from NASA's Kepler space probe to determine the size of an exoplanet.

Continuing an admirable and heartening trend in the charter space, Houston - based YES Prep charter schools yesterday released a probing analysis of its graduates» postsecondary performance and the strategies it's using to improve the same.

This book, the first volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

This book, the third volume in the NSTA Press USI series includes 25 formative assessment probes that can be used across multiple grade spans, as well as pre-service teacher education and teacher professional development in life, physical, earth, and space sciences.

James Turrell's Skyscapes, rectangular cuts into the ceilings of spaces that frame a patch of the sky moving above, encourage viewers to meditate on the beauty of the heavens and use light from to provide insight into changing natural forces, while Ólafur Elíasson uses blue to probe the phenomenological effects of the sky, for instance enveloping entire gallery spaces in blue.

Using found images culled from interior design magazines, photographs, postcards, and the Internet, Dow's non-representational works probe the relationship between two - and three - dimensional space and the expressive capacity of color.

Raman Laser is well used and is the instrument of choice for space probe detectors.

RTGs are typically used in remote locations, like space probes, and a solid - state solution offers fewer failure modes than something with moving parts.

And of course there is another energy technology that has been successfully used to generate electricity for space probes and satellites and space stations «for decades with no interruptions or service calls» — photovoltaics.

The institute's early study of the Earth and planetary atmospheres using data collected by satellites, space probes, and space probes eventually led to GISS becoming a leading center of atmospheric modeling and of climate change.

While the satellite dataset has its strengths, unlike thermometers and temperature probes used on weather balloons the Microwave Sounding Units were new, largely untested tools when they were put into space.