Sentences with phrase «detected from space»

Changes in ocean color — a measure of phytoplankton mass — detected from space allowed researchers to calculate their photosynthetic rates and correlate these changes to the climate.

The computer model was then used to calculate how often each would be detected from space, and how accurately the paths of these vessels would be followed.

Equally impressive are several burrows built by wombats that are so extensive they have been detected from space.

Fast - forward a few billion years, and wind erosion has carved into and exposed these layers for scientists like Okubo to detect from space.

Such connections would be much harder to detect from space for terrestrial plant biomass.»

Not exact matches

For those who need the introductions, Melroy is a retired Air Force officer and former NASA astronaut who piloted the space shuttle Discover, Drell is one of the foremost leaders in the field of particle physics, and Malvala is an astrophysicist and member of the team that first detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

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.

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to the team behind NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, or WMAP, a space telescope that launched in 2001 to map the cosmic microwave background — the earliest, oldest light we can detect from the universe's infancy.

It could also detect faint alien signals leaking into space, akin to those from airport radar or TV broadcast towers.

That's why it was a surprise when physicists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced in February 2016 that they had detected ripples in space from the violent merger of two black holes 29 and 36 times as massive as our sun.

For the first time, scientists worldwide and at Penn State University have detected both gravitational waves and light shooting toward our planet from one massively powerful event in space — the birth of a new black hole created by the merger of two neutron stars.

On 2 December, a spacecraft will blast off from the European Space Agency's base in French Guiana, carrying equipment designed to help detect gravitational waves.

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.

«Because ultraviolet light from objects in space can be detected only by telescopes located outside Earth's atmosphere, Swift's UVOT telescope provided unique data on this event.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects like neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

We've detected the signatures of neutrinos from space with a vast range of energies, but we don't know precisely where they come from.

They are detected from Earth by the beams of radio waves that emanate from their magnetic poles and sweep across space as the pulsar rotates.

Now, the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has detected heat from five of these dusty galaxies, opening a window into the universe's biggest stellar construction boom.

A gravitational wave from a distance source stretches space by an infinitesimal amount, and to detect that rhythmic stretching LIGO employs two gigantic optical devices called interferometers, which essentially act as gigantic rulers.

We have experiments in underground laboratories trying to directly detect dark matter particles coming in from space, and so far they have all come up empty.

Doing so would make it possible to detect gravitational waves, faint ripples in space - time that, according to Einstein, emanate from interactions between massive objects such as neutron stars and supermassive black holes.

This space - based experiment was meant to hunt gravitational waves from even bigger black holes than LIGO can detect by sending lasers between three spacecraft arranged in a triangle.

Finally it showed that our solar system is larger than previously thought: when the mission ended, with the probe 6.2 billion miles from Earth, it was still detecting solar - wind particles, indicating that it had not yet crossed the heliopause — the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space.

The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO), designed to detect gamma rays from distant astrophysical objects such as neutron stars and supernova remnants, had also begun recording bright, millisecond - long bursts of gamma rays coming not from outer space but from Earth below.

«This observation would be almost impossible to do from the ground because you need ultraviolet spectroscopy to detect the fingerprints of these elements, which can only be done from space,» Bordoloi said.

It does so by detecting the gamma rays those elements emit when they are bombarded by high - energy charged particles from space called cosmic rays.

We are attempting to detect the gravitational waves by hanging two huge mirrors from wires, each pair of mirrors about two and a half miles apart, and as the waves pass, the mirrors ride on that stretching and squeezing space so they are pushed apart and pulled together, back and forth.

Even down on the Red Planet's surface, the Curiosity rover might be able to get in on the act: Because Mars's atmosphere has no ozone to block ultraviolet light, sensors on the rover will be able to detect those wavelengths and thereby monitor certain trace gases spewing from the comet — unless a dust storm blocks the view to space, Lemmon says.

«Any national security incident would likely be significantly bigger, and could potentially be detected and reconstructed using data from fewer or more widely - spaced air sampling stations downwind of the release.»

Project researcher Dr Lars Madsen said the project applied techniques used to detect gravitational waves from black holes in outer space to the nanoscale — super small — world of molecular biology.

For example, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched in August, can see an object the size of Pluto located a few hundred astronomical units away [one astronomical unit is 96 million miles — the distance from the Earth to the s Sun], and Spitzer can detect a planet the size of Earth out to about 1,000 astronomical units.

NASA's Fermi space telescope detected gamma rays from within the region outlined in yellow.

Because x-rays don't penetrate Earth's atmosphere and can be studied only from space, it was not until 1975 that researchers detected similar x-ray emissions from other stars.

In a study published Jan. 30, 2017, in Space Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in sSpace Weather, scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, or NCAR, in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that the warning signs of one type of space weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in sspace weather event can be detected tens of minutes earlier than with current forecasting techniques — critical extra time that could help protect astronauts in spacespace.

Now, two orbiting telescopes, the Italian Space Agency's AGILE telescope and NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, have detected gamma rays emanating from Cygnus X-3, some more than 1000 times more energetic than previous measurements.

But as she read excited messages from colleagues that a gamma ray burst had also been detected, «I realized this was a breakthrough event,» says Troja, an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in Maryland.

The European Space Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Agency is planning on launching the Atmospheric Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray deteSpace Interactions Monitor (ASIM) within the next three years, which will be able to better detect both dark and visible lightning from space, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detespace, said Østgaard, who is part of the team that is building the ASIM gamma - ray detector.

The lack of water vapour in the atmosphere there allows terahertz radiation from space to reach the ground and be detected.

Planck What: A European Space Agency satellite that can detect slight fluctuations in the temperature of cosmic microwaves left over from the Big Bang.

From hundreds of kilometers away in space, orbiting instruments can detect subtle buckling of the earth's crust

Preliminary results released last week from the space - based Planck telescope suggest that dust could indeed account for the pattern BICEP2 detected.

Super-Kamiokande uses a vast tank of extremely pure water to detect neutrinos that emerge from interactions between cosmic rays (high - energy charged particles from space) and atoms in Earth's atmosphere.

Using data from the Herschel Space Telescope, Negrello et al. (p. 800) showed that by searching for the brightest sources in a wide enough area in the sky it was possible to detect gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxies with nearly full efficiency.

This leads us to think that in the near future we should be able to map currents from space by detecting even smaller variations in sea surface height.»

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) detected faint ultraviolet light from an aurora at the moon's south pole.

They are very hard to detect because their interaction with ordinary matter is extremely feeble, but over the years physicists have detected enough of them to observe that as they travel through space they can «oscillate» from one flavour to another.

When the Fermi Gamma - Ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008 by NASA, detected gamma ray emission from four spiral galaxies in its first year of orbit, physicists were perplexed.

By May of this year, a team lead by Neil Gehrels from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, detected the first short burst with the satellite.

The new study, published in the June 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal, suggests that clouds or haze layers could be preventing a substantial amount of atmospheric water from being detected by space telescopes.

Joiner, who helped to develop the space - based method for monitoring plant fluorescence, is eager to take measurements using OCO - 2, the small footprint of which should allow researchers to detect fluorescence signals from plants in more fragmented landscapes such as Europe's.