Sentences with phrase «illumination conditions»
"Illumination conditions" refers to the environmental factors that affect the lighting or brightness in a particular space or area. It describes how the light sources, such as natural or artificial light, interact with and impact the visibility or perception of objects or surroundings. Full definition
Our arguments were successful, garnering several extensions and ensuring, for example, that we witnessed the rare illumination conditions of Saturn's equinox in August 2009, when the sun's shallow rays on Saturn's rings revealed the presence of vertical structures protruding above the ring plane that cast long, easily seen shadows.
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«We reimaged it several times at different sun angles to be sure it wasn't just a trick of different illumination conditions,» says Ken Edgett, a member of the research team that made the discovery.
Fresh pictures in the new illumination conditions, along with information about the exact distance between Philae and Rosetta, could help pinpoint Philae's location.
The overall illumination conditions could improve for another couple months, as comet 67P approaches perihelion on 13 August, the closest point in its orbit around the sun.
«If illumination conditions are unclear, your assumptions about the illumination source will matter, and those might depend on lifestyle choices, such as when you go to sleep.»
Surface water ice appears and disappears in a cyclic pattern that follows local illumination conditions, providing a source of localized activity.
The authors suggest that the cyclic sublimationcondensation of ice triggered by varying illumination conditions may be a general process acting on cometary nuclei.
We find good cloaking performance in a water - based diffusive surrounding throughout the entire visible spectrum and for all illumination conditions and incident polarizations of light.