Sentences with phrase «imaging spectrometer»
An imaging spectrometer is a device that takes pictures and measures the different colors of light in those images. It helps scientists and researchers study and understand the composition and properties of objects, such as plants, minerals, or atmospheric gases, by analyzing the unique patterns and wavelengths of light they emit or reflect. Full definition
Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.
It consists of a charge - coupled device camera with four color filters spanning wavelengths from 400 to 970 nm plus a near - infrared imaging spectrometer covering wavelengths from 1.25 to 2.5 μm, where the various cryogenic ices are distinguishable via their characteristic vibrational absorption features.
As New Horizons glides behind Pluto and its shadow during the flyby, an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer aboard the spacecraft, named Alice, will analyze the filtered sunlight that passes through Pluto's atmosphere.
The data were gathered using the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on Chandra, an instrument conceived and designed by a team led by Penn State Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Gordon Garmire.
Abstract: Using the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer Imaging array (ACIS - I), we have carried out a deep hard X-ray observation of the Galactic plane region at (l, b) ~ (28.5, 0.0), where no discrete X-ray source had been reported previously.
This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.
For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.
Over the sea ice field the observations include: sea ice freeboard height and hence sea ice thickness from radar altimetry; sea ice surface temperature and sea ice drift from respectively infrared radiometer and imaging spectrometer under cloud free conditions.
Using a unique, high - fidelity imaging spectrometer onboard the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Asner and his team made the first - ever forest canopy maps of leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, and mass over a large portion of the biosphere covering nearly 200 million acres of Peru.
«Having global access with modern imaging spectrometers from lunar orbit is the next best thing to having a geologist with a rock hammer doing the field work across the surface.»
We have detected 274 new point X-ray sources (4 sigma confidence) as well as strong Galactic diffuse emission within two partially overlapping ACIS - I fields -LRB-... ▽ More Using the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer Imaging array (ACIS - I), we have carried out a deep hard X-ray observation of the Galactic plane region at (l, b) ~ (28.5, 0.0), where no discrete X-ray source had been reported previously.
Alice is an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer whose purpose is to study the atmospheric structure and composition of Pluto.
Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)-- A student experiment provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in Cambridge, which will observe the X-ray spectrum to identify chemical elements on Bennu's surface and their abundances.
Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.
The experiments, carried out using a Velocity Map Imaging spectrometer built at the OU, were funded by through a visiting Fellowship of Professor Krishnakumar.
Maria Cristina De Sanctis et al. report observations from the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer onboard the Rosetta mission that show a diurnal water ice on the surface of comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko.
In addition, MSSS built the Mars Odyssey (ODY) Thermal Emission Imaging Spectrometer (THEMIS) Visible (VIS) camera subsystem, which shares optics with the thermal infrared instrument and is operated at Arizona State University (ASU).
Carter, J., Poulet, F., Bibring, J. - P., Mangold, N. & Murchie, S. Hydrous minerals on Mars as seen by the CRISM and OMEGA imaging spectrometers: updated global view.
Researchers used the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) on the Keck I telescope to obtain spectrum of the star's host galaxy, and the Deep Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) on Keck II to obtain high - resolution spectra of the unusual star itself.
Examination of some of the scarps with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that the bright material is frozen water.
At first light, TMT — armed with the NFIRAOS adaptive optics facility and IRIS (Infrared Imaging Spectrometer)-- may even detect some of the youngest and most pristine early galaxies through their faint Lyman alpha emission, which does not readily penetrate a neutral medium.
The new study pairs HiRISE observations with mineral mapping by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
The Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument captured this infrared radiation during Venus Express's night - time orbits around the planet's southern hemisphere.
Intense extreme ultraviolet FEL pulses were directed at the clusters and the resultant energy distribution of electrons knocked out of the clusters was measured using a «velocity map imaging spectrometer».
Seen at the top left, the Chandra X-ray Observatory's false color view of the Cartwheel galaxy was taken with the S - array on the telescope's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer.
Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.
Images from Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrometer (UVIS), obtained from an unusually close range of about six Saturn radii, provided a look at the changing patterns of faint emissions on scales of a few hundred miles (kilometers) and tied the changes in the auroras to the fluctuating wind of charged particles blowing off the sun and flowing past Saturn.
Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.
That's the job of the Complex Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM.
The telescope, which recently lost one of its four main instruments, the imaging spectrometer, could fail as early as 2007 without new batteries.
They looked at detailed mineralogy data collected by NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), combined with high - resolution stereo images taken by NASA's HiRISE camera.
An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.
Meanwhile, a European instrument, the European Medium - Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, is in orbit — but, like MODIS, it is also well beyond its intended life span.
Now, a team using an imaging spectrometer aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reports the discovery of numerous patches of opaline silica across the Red Planet.
These two infrared images of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring were taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Oct. 19, 2014.
The Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) observed comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring as the comet sped close to Mars on Oct. 19.
Due to launch on Aug. 8, 2013, the VERIS rocket, short for Very high Resolution Imaging Spectrometer, will launch for a 15 - minute trip carrying an instrument that can measure properties of the structures in the sun's upper atmosphere down to 145 miles across, some eight times clearer than any similar telescope currently in space.
The new evidence also comes from the MRO via CRISM, its Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, which separates light into its constituent wavelengths to reveal the chemicals present on the Martian surface.
The Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) is a very versatile visible - wavelength imaging and spectroscopy instrument commissioned in 1993 and operating at the Cassegrain focus of Keck I.
The Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (LRIS) is a versatile visible - wavelength imaging and spectroscopy instrument commissioned in 1993 and operating at the Cassegrain focus of Keck I.
The space agency says that the MRO watched the comet go by with its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), the Compact Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), and the Context Camera (CTX), and will continue to observe the comet while it remains within range over the next few days.
For this study, the researchers collected data by the orbiter's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument, which allowed them to look at the kinds of minerals that were present in the gullies.
Image from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing deposits of impact glass (green) in Alga Crater.
Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) The Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (IRIS) will be mounted on the observatory Adaptive Optics system and be capable of diffraction - limited imaging and integral - field spectroscopy at near - infrared wavelengths (0.8 — 2.5 μm).
During the past five years, researchers used OMEGA and NASA's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, or CRISM, instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to identify clay minerals at thousands of locations on Mars.
The distance to the quasar is so great (about 10 billion light - years) that the emitted light is «stretched» by the expansion of the universe from an invisible ultraviolet wavelength to a visible shade of violet by the time it reaches the 10 - meter Keck I telescope and the LRIS (Low Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) used for this discovery.