Sentences with phrase «detect small objects»

It can detect small objects like coins up to 5 inches deep.

Detecting small objects that orbit other small objects trillions of miles away is an ambitious undertaking, but our solar system offers many reasons to try.

To detect smaller objects, radar scanners must operate at wavelengths between 1 and 10 centimetres, in the so called S - band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Not exact matches

«It provides an excellent response in detecting fairly small objects that are hard to see, and verifying that they are a rocket and not something else,» says Barak.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

Astronomers infer the presence of small rocky objects that give rise to such planets by detecting warm disks of dusty particles girdling young stars.

As the scanner pokes its prey (here, a small, green plastic frog) with a needle - like probe driven by a tiny motor, a light sensor detects contact between probe and object with an accuracy of 30 micrometers, and a linear actuator translates the rotation of the Lego gears into linear distance at a resolution of 6.25 micrometers.

This microscope is powerful enough to detect objects as small as a single micron — one - thousandth of a millimeter — and plaques are about 10 microns across.

We are not able to build visual sensors as good at detecting small moving objects as dragonflies and certainly not with that level of power consumption.

Though Hubble and Spitzer have detected other galaxies that are record - breakers for distance, this object represents a smaller, fainter class of newly forming galaxies that until now have largely evaded detection.

The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.

NASA has detected an estimated 1 % of the smaller Near - Earth Objects out there, and the cash - strapped agency would need at least half of a billion dollars to find the rest.

The explanation might lie in small airborne birds» need to detect and track objects whose image moves very swiftly across the retina — for blue tits, for example, to be able to see and avoid all branches when they take cover from predators by flying straight into bushes.

They have not detected it directly, but rather, have inferred its existence based on the way it gravitationally sculpts the strange orbits of six small objects beyond Pluto.

Conyers's system can detect objects as small as golf balls buried beneath five feet of sediment, but he can not tell his colleagues exactly what they are.

«It has been known for decades that there is a mechanism in the retina in the eye that helps us see small objects and detect edges on bright days, and that this mechanism gradually turns off when it is dark.

But this newly found galaxy is significantly smaller and fainter than most of those other remote objects detected to date.

Although the objects detected so far pose no real hazard, their surprising abundance suggests that current knowledge about the number of small objects out there is far from perfect.

On the other hand, the mass and short lifetime (dissipating with a 1,000 years) of these small particles indicate that the disk detected was created by a large and relatively recent collision that may have involved objects as big as the planet Pluto (up to 2,000 kilometers or around 1,200 miles in diameter).

While NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) failed to the tell - tale warmth of gas giants like Saturn within 10,000 AUs and larger than Jupiter objects out to 26,000 AUs (NASA / JPL news release), an icy «super-Earth», would have been too cold and faint for WISE to detect — even if the hypothesized planet has a small internal heat source and absorbs some sunlight.

It can likely detect objects as small as a half - meter in geosynchronous orbits.

Millard declined to say how small of an object SST could detect in GEO, but said it can detect many more objects than other systems.

Even low - mass objects like planets can lens a source significantly, and so we can probe down into the very low - mass planet regime with this method and detect planets much smaller than current radial velocity or transit capabilities allow.

If you have a blind spot monitoring system, understand that it may not be optimized to detect motorcyclists, bicyclists, pedestrians, or other smaller objects so you must always look at the traffic conditions before you choose to act.

The product can be mounted directly onto a robust drone, giving the device a complex vision to help it detect and avoid objects smaller than a can of soda.