Sentences with phrase «detected by the meter»

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Last spring, Geha and Josh Simon, a colleague at Caltech, used the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea to study the mass of eight newly discovered satellite galaxies, detected over the last two years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing effort to make a detailed map of a million galaxies and quasars.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural florBy studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural florby Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Over time, that light's wavelength was stretched to several meters by the expansion of the universe, before being detected on Earth as radio waves.

This finding was made from data collected by the 2001: Mars Odyssey Gamma Ray Spectrometer, or GRS, which is sensitive enough to detect the composition of Mars soil up to one - half meter deep.

On the dBA scale, 0 dB corresponds with the threshold of hearing (10 - 12 watts / square meter), the level that can just barely be detected by most people.

iRobot provided Seagliders in May to help detect the presence of oil by measuring temperature, salinity and other ocean properties at depths of up to 1,000 meters.

It was initially detected in November 2015 by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration using the Blanco 4 - meter telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile.

The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.

It uses algorithms to detect changes to the forest in areas as small as 10 square meters, about 100 square feet, allowing scientists to find small - scale disturbances that can not be detected by traditional satellite methods.

To detect faint radio waves coming from 10 billion light years away in an extremely harsh environment at an altitude of 5000 meters, new breakthrough technologies are incorporated into ALMA by integrating high - efficiency receivers, high - speed computer, and high - precision antennas allowing high accuracy tracking.

Numerous molecules emit radiation at these wavelengths and thus can be detected by the 12 - Meter telescope.

«About 16 % of near - Earth asteroids larger than 200 meters in diameter [those detected by Earth - based radar] may be binary systems.»

It was first detected on June 1, 2009 by the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration with the 1.8 - meter telescope at the Mount John University Observatory in New Zealand.

By comparison, the first FRB ever detected also struck the same dish — the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — in 2001, but was only reported in 2007.

Communication messages have a range of approximately 300 meters, and can detect dangers obscured by traffic, terrain, or weather.

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It can detect your hand from up to half a meter from the phone itself, and an ability to function even when the main SoC is asleep could let the system be used to wake your phone simply by moving your hand towards it.