Sentences with phrase «called spectrometers»

Remote sensing of atmospheric gases — from a satellite, for instance — can be performed with conventional instruments called spectrometers, but while satellite instruments have global coverage, they sample specific regions on Earth infrequently.

Hydrogen - sulfide ice can form clouds, but the solid crystals are hard for chemical - analyzing instruments called spectrometers to study.

The instrument, called a spectrometer, breaks apart the light of the star and planet, ultimately exposing chemicals that make up the planet's atmosphere.

The chemical composition of WD 1425 +540's atmosphere was analyzed using an instrument called a spectrometer, which breaks light into wavelengths.

Throughout the next hour, the volunteers were asked to blow into a device called a spectrometer, which measured the levels of common garlic - breath compounds, such as diallyl disulfide and allyl methyl sulfide.

Not exact matches

The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.

«Interestingly enough, the scientist who is lead primary investigator for the X-ray spectrometer for the space probe, they call it the PIXL, was his first graduate student from Macquarie University, before his KU times.

An orbiting detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is on the hunt.

In the original version of the technology, these peptides were detected using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which analyzes the molecular makeup of a sample.

Farther out, a 2300 - ton structure of steel and scintillators measures the energies of strongly interacting particles, and, finally, from a radius of 5 to 10 m, the so - called «muon spectrometer» measures the momentum of muons with 2000 m2 of high precision positioning detectors.

Wynn - Williams will soon use a mini Raman spectrometer — called a CMaRS — that he can carry into the field in his backpack to detect the fossilized pigments of ancient cyanobacteria.

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

It analyzed the planet's composition with an instrument called a reflectance spectrometer, which collects light and then splits that light into its component wavelengths to figure out which elements the light was reflected from.

A device called the integrated ion - trap - time - of - flight mass spectrometer, which was invented by Hudson's lab and which was used to discover the reaction — was featured on a recent episode of the sitcom «The Big Bang Theory.»

One of the major goals of the ongoing space shuttle mission — Endeavour's final visit to the International Space Station — was to bestow a 7.8 - ton parting gift: an automated particle detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS - 02, or, more colloquially, AMS), which was attached to the station yesterday.

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.

One more shuttle flight could be added to the lineup to install a long - mothballed, $ 1.5 - billion telescope called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the space station.

«I used to call it PMS, «poor man's spectrometer».»

Using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, scientists could peer at molecules of ice and learn the temperature on the day that the snow fell.

And ROSINA, a Rosetta instrument that uses spectrometers to measure gas abundances, has obtained a highly sought after result: the so - called deuterium - to - hydrogen ratio of water in the comet's thin atmosphere, or coma.

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

PPPL has used such diagnostic systems, called X-ray crystal spectrometers, for decades to study the data from the laboratory's magnetic fusion research.

«The whole time Cassini is descending, we'll be on the ground, taking data and learning about conditions on Saturn,» said Don Jennings, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-investigator for a Cassini instrument called the Composite Infrared Spectrometer.

The image above (view the full - res version), which is called the absorption spectrum of the Sun, was observed by the Fourier Transform Spectrometer at the National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, near Tucson, Arizona.

Other notable features of the Mars 2020 rover include: a new drill that can dig deeper (where microbes could still be living today), a UV laser spectrometer (amusingly called SHERLOC), and a very - high - res SuperCam.

The Hubble telescope's infrared camera, called the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, captured a fleeting phase in the death march of this star.

The astronomers used a highly specialized instrument called the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer, or HIRES, mounted on the 10 - meter Keck - I telescope.

Pablant said he would look at results from the first plasma measured by a diagnostic device called an X-ray crystal spectrometer that he and PPPL engineer Michael Mardenfeld designed and built.

Together they have revolutionized a key instrument in the quest to harness fusion energy — a device called an X-ray crystal spectrometer that is used around the world to reveal strikingly detailed information about the hot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions.

Our approach is called GAPS, the gaseous antiparticle spectrometer.

The researchers used an extremely advanced and sophisticated instrument called MOSFIRE (Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra - Red Exploration) installed on the Keck I telescope at the Keck Observatory.

The research team — including Anibal Ramirez - Cuesta, Luke Daemen, and Yongqiang Cheng of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as Timothy Jenkins and Craig Brown of the National Institute of Standards and Technology — used spectroscopic tools, including the state - of - the - art inelastic neutron spectrometer called VISION at the Spallation Neutron Source, to examine the atomic - level dynamics of a special kind of molecular structure called a clathrate.

HAP, these days they have instruments called infrared spectrometers that can measure the effect of CO2 at various wavelengths in the atmosphere, and its direct impacts on intensity so it is all quantified and it agrees with physics too.

This so - called back radiation has been physically measured many times by infrared spectrometers looking up from the surface and down from above.

In the particular instance of so - called back radiation the reality is that if you point an IR spectrometer up at the night sky photons of far higher energy than the cosmic microwave background are hitting it.