Sentences with phrase «as spectrometers»

Each rover also had a small arm with tools such as spectrometers and a microscopic imager.

If so, it is a landscape recorded through technological means such as a spectrometer.

Not exact matches

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

As Donike said, and contrary to what most everyone in Caracas thought, the $ 200,000 worth of equipment used there — two mass spectrometers, four gas chromatographs and two computer printout machines, all American - made by Hewlett - Packard — was virtually identical to that used to test athletes in Helsinki and at last year's soccer World Cup in Madrid.

The milestone is defined as «events recorded from beam - target interactions using the Hall A spectrometer detector systems with 3 - pass > 6 GeV beam energy and at least 2 nA average beam current.»

Although the whole drive to understand the molecular basis of beer production involves modern tools that are used in biotechnology, such as real - time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gene chips, proteomics, mass spectrometers, and so forth, genetic manipulation is not acceptable in any form — not in any of the raw materials or the yeast.

DAMPE's data could help to determine whether a surprising pattern in the abundance of high - energy electrons and positrons — detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station — comes from dark matter or from astronomical sources such as pulsars, says Pohl, who also works on the AMS.

The starlight that streams around the planet as it passes conveys valuable information — like the planet's size and the chemical makeup of its atmosphere — to the telescopes and spectrometers of Earth - bound stargazers.

Its product range includes pipettes and automated pipetting systems, dispensers, centrifuges, mixers, spectrometers and DNA amplification equipment as well as ultra-low temperature freezers, fermentors, bioreactors, CO2 incubators, shakers and cell manipulation systems.

«To do this kind of work, you need to be able to use the tools we use for analysis», such as mass spectrometers, he says.

They took sludge samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized in a superhot plasma.

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.

«Each amino acid has a different weight, and as the mass spectrometer smashes (the fragments) up, it also measures the weight,» says Welker.

The new finding is based on data from the gamma ray spectrometer on Mars Odyssey, which can measure concentrations of various chemical elements as far as about 30 centimetres below the Martian surface.

«We're busy working on analyzing the infrared data from this special view of the Saturn system,» said Phil Nicholson, a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team member from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. «The infrared data should tell us more about the sizes of the particles which make up the D, E, F and G rings, and how these sizes vary with location in the rings, as well as providing clues as to their chemical composition.»

As one of the overseers of the Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection Database, he has run more than 600 commercial products through a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer to record their molecular signatures and uploaded the results to an online database.

Then the device drives the water sample into an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which detects thousands of molecules as a molecular fingerprint.

This is a global map of Mars sulfur concentration (as percentage by mass) derived from the 2001: Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer spectra.

Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.

«These oscillations can be thought of as a planet's heartbeat,» says Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester, UK, lead author of the study (published in Nature Astronomy) and co-investigator of Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS).

The telescope, which recently lost one of its four main instruments, the imaging spectrometer, could fail as early as 2007 without new batteries.

Therefore, an HZB team at the triple axis spectrometer FLEXX has developed the new detector module MultiFLEXX: It allows beam time to be used ten times as efficiently.

Researchers at the Institut des Sciences de la Terre (CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier / IRD / IFSTTAR / Université de Savoie) and the Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS / Université Joseph Fourier) used the SWIFTS [1] spectrometer to detect these as yet poorly understood movements.

Theory aside, MRO's spectrometer clearly identified the bright ejecta around one larger crater as water ice.

As the spacecraft edges closer over the summer, different instruments will start to work: cameras and spectrometers at various wavelengths, mass spectrometers, chemical analyzers, and sounding instruments.

«Our very broad dual combs have a moderate spacing between the successive lines of the frequency comb, as compared to gas spectrometers which can get away with a less broad dual comb but need a fine spacing between the lines of the comb.»

As opposed to most spectrometers, which focus on gas detection, this new, miniaturized spectrometer is especially suited for liquids and solids, which have broader absorption features than gases?the range of frequencies they absorb is more spread out.

The scientists used a chemical detection device called a proton - transfer reaction mass spectrometer to, for the first time, track the odors emitted by flowers in the wild just as moths might encounter them.

A machine called a mass spectrometer measured levels of scent molecules as far as 4.5 meters away from the flowers.

The working conditions are excellent here, and technical services, such as access to mass spectrometer and nuclear magnetic resonance equipment for researchers, are also very good.

Equipped with a rock - abrasion tool and a suite of spectrometers, the robotic geologist poked around the formation known as the Comanche outcrops, but its findings were not conclusive at the time.

But today's mass spectrometers, which determine the molecular makeup of a sample by exactly measuring the mass of its components, are roughly 1,000 times as sensitive as those used in 1995, when sarin was released in a Tokyo subway, says Maarten Nieuwenhuizen, a senior chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear protection consultant at TNO laboratories in the Netherlands.

Schroeter even went so far as to break down the mass spectrometer piece by piece, soak the whole thing in methanol to remove any possible contaminants, and reassemble the machine.

The Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) observed comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring as the comet sped close to Mars on Oct. 19.

For more ambiguous types of waste, such as a piece of plywood with nails driven through it, the robot uses a spectrometer to recognise objects based on the unique patterns of light they reflect.

It may have begun as the hobby of a Swiss lab technician but, ten years on, the e-CALLISTO network of spectrometers now encircles the globe, recording solar radio emissions around the clock.

As the trailing LCROSS spacecraft approached the lunar surface, documenting the debris cloud en route to its own impact just a few minutes later, LRO had its own spectrometer trained on the airspace over Cabeus.

It works when you shine full - spectrum light through a liquid or dissolved sample, which enters the spectrometer frame through a narrow slit, aligning the light as it hits the prism and camera.

The $ 200 million National Core Facility for Protein Sciences, nicknamed PHOENIX, will house 25 mass spectrometers and have the capacity to sequence 10 proteomes per day, and is scheduled to launch as early as mid-2015.

In order to determine the mass of the strange hydrogen nucleus as accurately as possible, the nuclear physicists observed the radioactive decay of the nucleus using a combination of several magnetic spectrometers.

It carried a colourful dot painting by Britart exponent Damien Hirst to calibrate the craft's cameras and spectrometer, as well as an MP3 track by Blur.

When particles from the plumes entered the spacecraft's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), they interacted with its titanium walls, producing the same sort of hydrogen as hydrothermal processes would create under Enceladus's ocean.

To prevent this, the ELVOCs are directly ionized under atmospheric conditions in the gas phase, and subsequently transported as an electrically charged ELVOC - molecule into the sensor (mass spectrometer), where the detection takes place.

They have determined the structures of the products of flash vacuum pyrolysis, observing them directly as they formed with an on - line mass spectrometer.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has already cataloged more than 60 billion protons, electrons and other spaceborne subatomic particles, known as cosmic rays, as they zip by.

Measurements carried out using the AGATA spectrometer has unravelled the details of neutron oscillations in the atomic nucleus and determined how many neutrons on the surface, or «skin», of the nucleus participate in unique vibrations known as pygmy resonances.

In this application, a nanotube film with an array of electrodes can be used as an electrically configurable diffraction grating for an infrared spectrometer, allowing the wavelength of light to be scanned without moving parts.

Robert Hazen, executive director of the Deep Carbon Observatory in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the research, sees the group's new detector as «a radical departure from traditional mass spectrometer techniques.

For that purpose, it is equipped with a Telescope Wide - View Cameras and Light Detection and Ranging, as well as with a Near Infrared Spectrometer.

In order to confirm these findings, the team combined its observations with a series of previous ones made with HARPS, as well as with the more advanced High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, or HIRES, at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Planet Finding Spectrograph, or PFS, at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.