Sentences with phrase «earlier measurements»

Early measurements of cosmic density indicated there is so little matter out there that the expansion could continue to infinity.

The results are shown in the figure and agree well with earlier measurements.

Based on early measurements taken by the New Horizons spacecraft, Grundy and many othersimmediately speculated that the red spot was made of tholins created by the transfer of Pluto's atmosphere to Charon.

Although low values at an altitude of around 15 kilometres were known from earlier measurements in the peripheral area of the tropical West Pacific, the complete absence of ozone at all heights was surprising.

As I stated on Today the results come from combining data from CryoSat - 2 with earlier measurements by NASA's ICEsat satellite (2003 - 2008).

Recently an improved radar altimetry study confirms and extends earlier measurements (Flament and Rémy 2012).

When the astronomers compared their new VLA measurements of the motion of SiO molecules close to the young star with earlier measurements of other molecules farther away from the protostar, they realized the two were orbiting the star in opposite directions.

Some of the early measurements of the August event suggested instead that one of the jets may have been pointed slightly away from Earth.

These early measurements suggested that temperatures were relatively warm between 1760 and 1850.

The recent claim of a much higher neutrino speed just doesn't fit with this earlier measurement.

Experts urged caution, especially because an earlier measurement of neutrino velocity had indicated, to high precision and accuracy, that neutrinos do respect the cosmic speed limit.

Bolton said the Juno team members who made initial models of the planet's internal gravity field «are already having to redo the field model» based on those early measurements.

«I have to compliment the Gravity Probe B team for their result, because Gravity Probe B is a very difficult and very beautiful experiment,» says Ignazio Ciufolini, a physicist at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, who made the earlier measurement.

Ice deformation The earlier measurements were limited by their reliance on ships smashing their way into the region and deploying teams to drill a hole down which a tape measure can be inserted.

Early measurements — many taken by the late UChicago geochemist Robert Clayton — did not have sufficient precision to tell the Moon and Earth apart.

He says he believes the new result, but that there is no obvious way to make it compatible with years of earlier measurements.

«One of the biggest surprises of the earlier measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory was the fluid - like behavior of the quark - gluon plasma.

And although the earliest measurements were crude, they were much closer to Einstein's predictions than Newton's.

The values measured are compared to results of earlier measurements.

The earlier measurement of 72 km / sec / Mpc had an uncertainty (error margin) of + / - 8 km / sec / Mpc and the newer near - infrared work reduces the uncertainty by more than two times to + / - 3.6 km / sec / Mpc.

Early measurements on glaucoma patients and normal eyes are helping to refine the instrumentation and determine the sensitivity and specificity of each biomarker for detecting glaucoma.

Fonarowsaid that only 59 percent of patients in the database had their lipid levels checked upon admission, which should be increased, since these early measurements can often help guide treatment decisions.

(Earlier measurements are based on ship observations and are much less precise.)

If the new report Rose is talking about says the increase since 1951 is 0.12 °C per decade, then it's off by only 8 percent from the earlier measurement of 0.13 °.

Earlier measurements had lowballed heat accumulation due to historically sparse observations for large parts of the ocean.

Missing a variable could cause recent tree ring variations to be misinterpreted and make recent measurements not comparable to all earlier measurements.

Early measurements were taken using a canvas bucket trailed in the water, or later a better insulated wooden or rubber bucket.

The more recent changeover from engine - room intake to buoy measurements requires ocean temperatures recorded over the past 20 years or so to be adjusted slightly to match the earlier measurements.

Immediately after the hurricane, maximum values for gross primary productivity were similar to earlier measurements and trees at the study sites produced new fine roots using stored carbon up to 11 years old.