Sentences with phrase «field measurements taken»

Based on magnetic field measurements taken by the Messenger at an altitude as low as 9 miles, scientists have now discovered that Mercury, located just 36 million miles from the sun, possesses a magnetic field dating back almost four billion years.

Not exact matches

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

Scientists have been taking direct measurements of the field only since 1837, but mariners have been watching magnetic north far longer.

«So as geologists, we go to the area and take samples and do measurements in the field on the mountain ranges that stick out,» says Enkelmann.

The Galileo spacecraft took brief «snapshot» measurements of the magnetic field in 20 - minute intervals, but its observations were too brief to distinctly catch the cyclical rocking of the ocean's secondary magnetic field.

«First measurements taken of South Africa's Iron Age magnetic field history: Ancient ritualistic village burnings opened the door to data collection.»

Liska's study, which was funded through a three - year, $ 500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, used carbon dioxide measurements taken from 2001 to 2010 to validate a soil carbon model that was built using data from 36 field studies across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

AMPERE took a major step toward real - time measurements in August when Boeing created a new data pathway for transferring AMPERE magnetic field samples from Iridium's satellites at a rate of every two to 20 seconds.

One hindrance to real - world studies of entire dune fields is the amount of time required to acquire sufficient data: it often takes several decades to compile thorough measurements.

Atomic clocks of the previous generation, with significantly lower precision, are currently being used in applications including satellite navigation systems, high - capacity wireless networks (wi - fi), ensuring the security of bank communications, and also taking measurements of the Earth's gravitational field, yielding insight into its internal geological structure.

He made emus run across a smooth, soft field at his local zoo, and took measurements and casts of the prints they left behind, examining everything from the length of the print to individual toe components and angles.

Nick Gubbins, an undergraduate student who has worked in the Stanley lab, takes methane flux measurements in the field.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken measurements of Titan's dune fields and revealed that although the prevailing winds blow from east to west, dunes as high as 300 feet (91 meters) seem to build up in the opposite direction, likely formed by gusts of very strong «rogue» winds that occasionally blow in the opposite direction.

Taking models of galaxies from the Hubble Space Telescope Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) and applying a correction for the HUDF point spread function we generate lensed simulations of deep, opti... ▽ More We present a simulation analysis of weak gravitational lensing flexion and shear measurement using shapelet decomposition, and identify differences between flexion and shear measurement noise in deep survey data.

Measurements taken during an earlier study shows that its magnetic field is several hundred times stronger than our Sun's.

The researchers took high - resolution mean and fluctuating velocity and density field measurements in an RM flow, which was shocked and reshocked, to understand production and dissipation in a two - fluid, developing turbulent flow field.

In this lesson, students will learn the constructs of, and good habits for, field journals, taking what they've learned in the past about time, species, measurements, and location, and recording all that data in written form.

This lesson is a primer on taking field measurements for animal identification.

For instance, taking one of the two examples mentioned above, the radiation code can be tested against field measurements at specific times and places where the composition of the atmosphere is known alongside a line - by - line code.

Actually taking measurements in the field isn't the way climate science is done, that is beneath most climate scientists apparently.

We have completed field measurements of each of the 35 glaciers below and use the aerial photographs to present a broad view that is lost when taking a picture of the glacier from the ground.

This timeframe took advantage of the data collected by a series of field campaigns managed by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility.

The ten indicators of climate change include measurements of sea level rise taken from ships, the temperature of the upper atmosphere taken from weather balloons and field surveys of melting glaciers.