Sentences with phrase «ultraviolet spectrometer»

In addition to providing important information on its own, NGIMS would complement other instruments aboard, specifically the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer, which would also measure gas composition.

- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, then about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Jupiter, observed the impacts with its ultraviolet spectrometer and a planetary radio astronomy instrument.

No previous mission has been able to tackle that question,» says David Brain, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder who is helping design Hope's instruments, a high - resolution camera and infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers.

To predict eruptions, volcanologists typically use distant ultraviolet spectrometers to measure SO2 released by active volcanoes.

It will snap the first close - up images of Pluto and Charon, map their surface features with visible - wavelength cameras, study their compositions in the near - infrared spectrum, and monitor Pluto's thin atmosphere with ultraviolet spectrometers and radio waves.

Not exact matches

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.

Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.

Intense extreme ultraviolet FEL pulses were directed at the clusters and the resultant energy distribution of electrons knocked out of the clusters was measured using a «velocity map imaging spectrometer».

Raman on Mars NASA will also develop the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) ultraviolet (UV) laser spectrometer.

The probes will carry a similar array of spectrometers to those on MESSENGER, and will study the planet at many different wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray.

During this period, in - flight tests were conducted on the spacecraft's Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars inspectrometer and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars inSpectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars in April 2006.

Wide Field Optical Spectrometer (WFOS) The Wide Field Optical Spectrometer (WFOS) will provide near - ultraviolet and optical (0.3 — 1.0 μm wavelength) imaging and spectroscopy over a more than 40 square arcminute field - of - view.

Images from the Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) and the Coronal Diagnostics Spectrometer (CDS) on SOHO show the hot gases of the ever - changing corona reacting to the evolving magnetic fields rooted in the solar surface.

The distance to the quasar is so great (about 10 billion light - years) that the emitted light is «stretched» by the expansion of the universe from an invisible ultraviolet wavelength to a visible shade of violet by the time it reaches the 10 - meter Keck I telescope and the LRIS (Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) used for this discovery.

As New Horizons glides behind Pluto and its shadow during the flyby, an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer aboard the spacecraft, named Alice, will analyze the filtered sunlight that passes through Pluto's atmosphere.

When New Horizons arrives at the Pluto system, onboard science instruments such as Alice, a sensitive ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, will reveal even more about the composition and structure of the dwarf planet's dynamic atmosphere.

The scientists selected stars that shine brighter in ultraviolet, that is, from118 to 320 nanometers, the working range of the spectrometer (there were a total of 50 of them).

The SPICAV system (Spectroscopy for the Investigation of the Characteristics of the Atmosphere of Venus) consisted of two spectrometers, an infrared one, created by Russian specialists, and an ultraviolet one, made by French scientists.

Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer whose purpose is to study the atmospheric structure and composition of Pluto.

Comparison between the zonal winds from ultraviolet images and the vertical profile of zonal winds from the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) shows that the zonal winds from the ultraviolet images are from a pressure level that is ∼ 0.2 scale heights higher than the pressure level of the zonal winds from continuum - band images.