Sentences with phrase «detected flashes of»

During its mission, the robotic spacecraft detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

The Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited Venus from 2006 until earlier this year, detected flashes of infrared light coming from the planet's surface.

They can't be observed directly from Earth because they are blocked by the atmosphere, but Cherenkov telescopes spot them by detecting the flash of light caused by their collision with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70 - year quest to test the limits of human vision.

They rarely interact with ordinary matter, but massive experiments have been set up to detect the flashes of light produced when they do.

Not exact matches

We consider the possibility of some equities experiencing a disproportionate share of the detected mini flash crashes.

In the three - minute windows between 9:30 and 9:33 during the control period, we detect a mean of 2.50 mini flash per day, with a standard deviation of 1.65 mini flash crashes.

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Still, after accounting for the possibilities of some specific equities experiencing a disproportionate share of mini flash crashes, and variations in trading activity creating more opportunities for mini flash crashes to occur, the evidence continues to suggest that an abnormal level of instability could have been detected in the U.S. equity market during the test window on October 15, 2014.

Lots of baby monitors have a light display on the parent unit that flashes when sound is detected.

NOT MORDOR Flashes of infrared light detected by the Venus Express spacecraft could be signs of active volcanoes (illustrated) on Venus.

The camera, for one, optimizes photo quality by automatically detecting the brightness level of the environment and adjusts the flash and shutter speed accordingly.

It is no good having a technology that tells you that a neuron has fired by giving off a flash of light, if you can not detect that light.

Even a modest telescope can detect millions of stars, which means it could also pick up any flashes of light that outshine those stars.

With their long strings of light - detecting devices, lowered into deep water or ice to wait for the telltale flashes that signal a neutrino, none of them looks remotely like a conventional telescope.

People can also unconsciously detect gender, do simple adding problems when «invisible» numbers are flashed onto the screen, or distinguish between depictions of inappropriate and appropriate actions (for example, discerning between an invisible image of an athlete batting a ball with a baseball bat and an image that has been doctored to show the player swatting at the ball using a flower bouquet).

«The eye can actually detect single photons, but the signals that light sends to the brain are suppressed unless there are about seven — otherwise you would see flashes of light all the time — even in complete darkness,» explains quantum physicist Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

If she has her way, in a few years many of them will be retrofitted with about $ 5,000 worth of light sensors and electronics designed to detect minute flashes of light, like the Auger tanks.

The lightning mapper will help forecasters detect jumps in the frequency of in - cloud and cloud - to - ground lightning flashes.

Like existing ground - based gamma - ray observatories, the telescopes wouldn't detect gamma rays directly but would instead pick up the flashes of light given off when gamma radiation interacts with atoms in the upper atmosphere.

The faster Earth moves, the more dark - matter detections it would make, and so the number of flashes detected would vary throughout the year.

When a low - energy neutrino or antineutrino from a supernova collides with a water molecule in the tank, the resulting light signal is recorded by about 100 of 13,000 photomultipliers, ultrasensitive light - detecting devices that turn a tiny flash of light into a larger recordable burst of electricity.

When a collision happens, a xenon atom will recoil and emit a tiny flash of light, which is detected by LUX's light sensors.

When neutrinos interact with electrons or nuclei of those water or oil molecules, they give off a flash of light that sensors can detect.

«Once these elements had been extracted, intense flashes of light were detected in the image sequences.

The modeling showed that basketball - sized eyes could detect whales amid flashes of light from more than 120 meters away — giving the squid enough of an edge to make a quick exit.

The flash of light from lightning within clouds is hard to detect and most monitoring stations are located on land.

A handful of these elusive cosmic radio flashes, whose exact origin remains unknown, have been detected during the last decade.

Wakely set out with colleague Simon Swordy, a physicist at the University of Chicago, to create a ground - based instrument that could detect both the first and second blue flashes.

Flashes of infrared light detected by the Venus Express spacecraft could be signs of active volcanoes (illustrated) on Venus.

They will fill it with 3 tons of liquid scintillator to detect the flash produced when a neutrino combines with a proton to form a positron (or anti-electron) and a neutron.

Such a telescope would use large arrays of ground - based telescopes to detect blue flashes of

Such a telescope would use large arrays of ground - based telescopes to detect blue flashes of Cerenkov radiation, which are caused by very high energy gamma - ray photons from cosmic sources smashing into the atmosphere.

The mysterious flash of high - energy burst, called FRB 150215, was detected in February 2015 using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.

About two seconds after the gravitational waves ended, a bright flash of light, in the form of gamma rays, was detected by NASA's Fermi space telescope.

The standard Audi Pre-Sense system can warn the driver, tension the seatbelts and close the windows if a potential collision is detected, while Pre-Sense Rear flashes the brake lights as a warning to rearward traffic if you're in danger of being rear - ended.

Works like a charm and together with rear radar and surrounding sodar you have a car that can detect obstacles, read signs, see the road, partly drive by itself, keep cruise control distance, warn rear driver if they don't see you are at standstill in a queue (the car then flashes the lights to wake them up) and to protect you (if they still doesn't react and my car thinks this will not end well, it pretensions seat belts, apply full brake if you are at stand still, to prevent you from bouncing further, and precharge the airbag safety system - if nothing happens, it releases the belts and so on), and it can find parking spot that fits and help you park there and of course help you with obstacles around the car when parking by yourself.

If the light illuminates without ever flashing, then the TPMS has detected that one of your tires is not inflated to the proper pressure.

When the driver activates the turn indicator in the direction of a detected vehicle, the Side Assist indicator flashes as the next warning stage, which draws the driver's attention to the mirror.

In its press release, Ford is proud of the driver assist features fitted to the 2015 Ranger Wildtrak, which include Lane Keeping Alert, Adaptive Cruise Control, a Forward Alert system that flashes and preps the brakes if it detects an imminent collision, front and rear parking sensors with rear - view camera, a tyre - pressure monitoring system, and a Driver Impairment Monitor that uses a camera and sensors to detect driver weariness.

The icon flashes if the driver activates the turn signal in the direction of the detected vehicle.

So, if the system detects an inattentive driver is about to rear - end the car ahead, it flashes and sounds an alert while automatically activating the brakes to avoid or reduce the severity of a collision.

Included in the safety features are the pre-collision assist system, which detects the potential for a collision with both vehicles and pedestrians and flashes a warning across the windshield of the vehicle and sounds an alarm in the cockpit of the car.

While the flash helped with indoor shots, I detected a fair amount of graininess and image noise.

In order to mitigate the side effects of this, we run informal contractual audits to detect possible fiscal risk, issue spontaneous flash news on changes in tax legislation that directly affects our clients» businesses, and we also conduct tax optimisation processes to distress fiscal tension.

There's a small LED on the face of the device that flashes green when it detects signals and turns solid blue when you're connected.

If you have just rooted your Samsung phone and a constant message of «Custom binary blocked by FAP lock «is popping on your screen, it means that you have flashed an unauthorized binary file on your phone and to ensure the phone's security, the phone is preventing itself to boot, since it has detected an -LSB-...]

One of the Linus lock's key features will be a message that flashes on its numeric keypad if a Nest Protect installed in the home detects the presence of dangerous levels of carbon monoxide.

Nintendo warns that for USB flash drives, even though the Wii U will detect and connect them as it would a hard disk, due to limitations on the number of times data is read from the disk and how this will eventually wear the USB flash drive down, Nintendo does NOT recommend leaving important save and other game data on a USB flash drive for long periods of time.

Perhaps the most important aspect of Ford Co-Pilot360 is the standard automatic emergency braking — anytime a potential collision is detected, the system will flash a warning and sound an alert, and if your reaction time isn't quite quick enough, your car will automatically pump the brakes in hopes of avoiding a collision.