Sentences with phrase «aboard satellites»

But, despite lacking absolute precision, the measuring instruments aboard the satellites are very stable.

The microwave sounding units (MSU) aboard the satellites don't actually measure air temperature, but rather the intensity of microwave radiation given off by oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, and the intensity of this radiation is a proxy for air temperature.

Here are a couple of updates on human activities down on our blue marble — seen here in an image just released by NASA but taken last October by a camera aboard a satellite orbiting Mars (hat tip to Michael Schlesinger at UIUC).

In the future, it could even make these measurements from aboard satellites.»

Improving mobile computing could allow much more efficient and rapid data processing aboard satellites, so less data would need to be sent to Earth for processing.

In other spectral bands, especially at very short wavelengths, astronomers need telescopes aboard satellites in orbit around our planet, outside the obscuring layer of the atmosphere.

Stable detectors placed aboard satellites above the Earth's atmosphere have been precisely monitoring the Sun's total irradiance of the Earth since 1978, providing conclusive evidence for small variations in the solar constant.

Mosher — «instruments» are also aboard the Satellites to record atmospheric temperatures vs depth by microwaves.

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

The microwave sounding units (MSU) aboard the satellites don't actually measure air temperature, but rather the intensity of microwave radiation given off by oxygen molecules in the atmosphere, from which the scientists estimate the temperature.

His subject, in accordance with his own academic specialty and his role as NASA representative, was remote viewing — the gathering of data about the Earth and its atmosphere by scientific instruments aboard satellites and aircraft.