Sentences with phrase «infrared spectrometer»

Cameras and other instruments onboard will also image Dione's north pole with a resolution down to a few feet, while the Composite Infrared Spectrometer instrument will study areas on the moon's surface that exhibit the unusual ability to trap heat.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at W.... Read more»

Was selected to be on a special team conducting research on decomposition of adipose fat in different buffer pH solutions using the Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer Instrument

In September 2014, the instrument was tested at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF); in March 2015, it was tested with the Near Infrared Spectrometer on the W. M. Keck Observatory's Keck II telescope with the assistance of UCLA astronomer Mike Fitzgerald (BS» 00) and UCLA graduate student Emily Martin, coauthors on the paper.

Krupp told the Washington Post that the new satellite will be «designed to do one thing way better than anyone's done it,» while project head Tom Ingersoll said the satellite «would use infrared spectrometers and track methane's signature wavelengths and reflection of small packets of light, or photons.»

The anthropogenic fraction is then used to evaluate the additional warming by analysis of its spectral contribution to the outgoing long - wavelength radiation (OLR) measured by infrared spectrometers embarked in satellites looking down.

For that purpose, it is equipped with a Telescope Wide - View Cameras and Light Detection and Ranging, as well as with a Near Infrared Spectrometer.

μm) spectra, obtained on the 2.7 m Harlan J. Smith Telescope at McDonald Observatory with the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS)(Park et al. 2014, SPIE, 9147, 1), for a variety of Galactic PDRs including regions of high mass star formation, reflection nebulae, and planetary nebulae.

An airborne infrared spectrometer for solar eclipse observations.

The researchers examined data collected by Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer during the year around equinox.

He is using Goddard Internal Research and Development program funding to repurpose a telescope mirror originally built to calibrate the Goddard - developed Composite Infrared Spectrometer now flying on NASA's Cassini mission.

OMEGA — a visible - light camera and infrared spectrometer intended to map and identify minerals on the surface of the planet.

«The sensitivity and versatility of Keck's new infrared spectrometer, MOSFIRE, was critical to this discovery,» Urry said.

Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer discovered an unexpected «hot spot» at Saturn's north pole.

He works with the radar and other instruments on Cassini, is co-investigator on the Juno mission launched in 2011 to Jupiter and on the near - infrared spectrometer under development for the Europa Multiple Flyby mission.

A compact and easy - to - use high resolution infrared spectrometer provide the good opportunity to investigate these objects continuously.

The final eruption was caught on Aug. 29 by both De Pater and UC Berkeley graduate Katherine de Kleer, using NASA's SpeX near - infrared spectrometer located at the agency's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), and the Gemini North telescope operated out of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

A short - wave infrared spectrometer — one of two carried by the Observatory — probes another dimension of ecosystems: their chemistry.

The SSU is a far - infrared spectrometer employing a pressure modulation technique to make measurement in three channels in the 15 μm carbon dioxide absorption band.

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption — one of the brightest ever seen on Io — on Aug. 29 at the start of a year - long series of Io observations led by de Kleer, using both the Near - Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near - infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at W. M. Keck Observatory and their results will help to build the foundations of galaxy evolution studies by predicting the star - formation rate of distant galaxies from the light they emit.

This work used the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS), developed under a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with the financial support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF grant AST - 1229522) to the University of Texas at Austin, and the Korean GMT Project of KASI.

(A) A segment of the near infrared (IR) spectrum of a cool star as observed by the Keck II telescope's near infrared spectrometer (NIRSPEC).

Comparison between the zonal winds from ultraviolet images and the vertical profile of zonal winds from the Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) shows that the zonal winds from the ultraviolet images are from a pressure level that is ∼ 0.2 scale heights higher than the pressure level of the zonal winds from continuum - band images.

Another option is to point an infrared spectrometer out the window of a Gulfstream V jet and cruise at an altitude of about 15 kilometers along the path of the eclipse.

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

The Italian Space Agency contributed an infrared spectrometer instrument and a portion of the radio science experiment.

Clive Oppenheimer at Mount Erebus volcano in Antarctica using an infrared spectrometer to measure gas emissions from the volcano's lava lake.

Testing equipment such as the infrared spectrometer on the plane will allow scientists to develop next - generation technologies that could be flown into space to gather data cheaply and quickly for a range of scientific applications, says Scott McIntosh, director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research's High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado.

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.

«These oscillations can be thought of as a planet's heartbeat,» says Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester, UK, lead author of the study (published in Nature Astronomy) and co-investigator of Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS).

Samra will have another infrared spectrometer at an altitude of 15 kilometers.

The international scientific team, led by author Charles W. Kosman, used an electron microprobe, an infrared spectrometer and a secondary ion mass spectrometer to analyze these diamonds.

An infrared spectrometer built by Jean - Pierre Bibring of the Institute of Space Astrophysics in Orsay, France, will make a mineralogical map of the planet's surface, looking in part for the carbonate sediments that should have been deposited in Martian lakes or oceans.

In this application, a nanotube film with an array of electrodes can be used as an electrically configurable diffraction grating for an infrared spectrometer, allowing the wavelength of light to be scanned without moving parts.

Based on measurements made by the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) instrument on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have produced a sequence of maps showing the varying surface temperatures on Saturn's moon Titan at two - year intervals, from 2004 to 2016.

The NASA Cassini team that managed the probe's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) talks about the great discoveries made with the instrument.

The radiation is also very faint compared to the bright surface seen by the camera, infrared spectrometer, and visible spectrometer.

«The whole time Cassini is descending, we'll be on the ground, taking data and learning about conditions on Saturn,» said Don Jennings, a senior scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and a co-investigator for a Cassini instrument called the Composite Infrared Spectrometer.

The team that managed the Cassini probe's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) talks about working on the mission for the last 20 years.

The team used an infrared spectrometer equipped with a high - pressure reaction vessel, located in Sigma 5 at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«These oscillations can be thought of as a planet's heartbeat,» says Dr Fletcher who is lead author of the study and co-investigator of Cassini's Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS).

The infrared spectrometer aboard Galileo was not capable of providing the detail needed to definitively identify some of the materials present on the surface.

Using the telescope's infrared spectrometer, Furlan's team sensed the presence of two belts in the disk made of large dust grains.