Sentences with phrase «instruments aboard»

The «plateau» is evident in the climate record Christy and former NASA scientist Roy Spencer compiled using actual raw temperature data collected from 14 instruments aboard various weather satellites.

In addition, solar spectral irradiance instruments aboard TIMED and SORCE have observed hundreds of flare events in the 0.1 nm to 190 nm range.

But here you have people like Mosher trying to tell you the record from 1880 to 1980 is usable for Global Average comparisons with the truly global data beginning in 1980 from MSU instruments aboard satellites.

His subject, in accordance with his own academic specialty and his role as NASA representative, was remote viewing — the gathering of data about the Earth and its atmosphere by scientific instruments aboard satellites and aircraft.

Cloud and Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments aboard NASA satellites measure incoming and outgoing radiant power at the top of the atmosphere.

Large - scale TOA radiation changes during the past decade are observed to be within 0.5 Wm ^ 2 per decade based upon comparisons between Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instruments aboard Terra and Aqua and other instruments...

Six types of instruments aboard Aqua are to scan through the atmosphere down to the surface, gathering the most detailed data ever on water vapor in clouds, ice crystals in the air, evaporation, water in the oceans, icebergs and other sea ice, as well as glaciers and snow pack on land.

In addition to providing important information on its own, NGIMS would complement other instruments aboard, specifically the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer, which would also measure gas composition.

While astronomers have an idea of what Pluto's atmosphere is like, and even what weather patterns it may exhibit, once New Horizons arrives at Pluto, the instruments aboard the spacecraft will take data of its atmosphere in unprecedented detail.

But, despite lacking absolute precision, the measuring instruments aboard the satellites are very stable.

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

But the enhanced instruments aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are breaching that barrier in a critical way: by detecting extremely subtle differences in wavelengths of infrared light, enough to isolate the nature and quantities of simple organic molecules.

There are CERES instruments aboard NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission, or TRMM, satellite, Terra, Aqua and NASA - NOAA's Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellites.

Their results, published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, imply that events from Solar System history that are recorded on much of the visible face of the Moon can one day be dated directly by instruments aboard a lunar lander.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

Remotely controlling instruments aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft, located a million miles from Earth, researchers led by Stanford astrophysicist Stathis Ilonidis tracked the motion of sound waves bouncing around the sun's interior.

According to the Indian Space Research Organization, Chandrayaan - 1 achieved all of its mission objectives before the malfunction was detected in May; some foreign scientists with instruments aboard Chandrayaan - 1 concur that the probe performed well.

MIRO is one of three U.S. instruments aboard the Rosetta spacecraft.

They are part of a suite of 11 science instruments aboard the Rosetta orbiter.

The next phase of this research will involve investigating whether other instruments aboard LRO could detect evidence for sparking in lunar soil, as well as improving the model to better understand the process and its consequences.

They flew instruments aboard a Twin Otter aircraft operated by Kenn Borek Air, Ltd., under contract to NSF.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

Using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, Hilker, Lyapustin and their colleagues developed a new method to detect and remove clouds and other sources of error in the data.

That analysis was based on data gathered by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) instrument aboard the LRO spacecraft.

NASA began taking passive - microwave measurements of sea ice in 1972, using an instrument aboard its Nimbus - 5 satellite.

First was an improvement in the computer processing that transforms raw satellite observations from the Dutch - Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura spacecraft into precise estimates of sulfur dioxide concentrations.

Using the Shallow Radar instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Holt was able to peek beneath the ice's surface for clues; in particular, the radar could pick out differences in electrical reflectivity between overlying layers, showing how the ice built up over time.

The infrared instrument aboard the plane will gather detailed spectral information at several locations around the solar corona.

This composite image, derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, shows the central cyclone at the planet's north pole and the eight cyclones that encircle it.

Combined with measurements from an instrument aboard NASA's Calipso satellite — another member of the A-Train — the data from Glory's APS will allow scientists to understand how different types of aerosols are distributed throughout the layers of the atmosphere.

The improved predictions are largely due to one particular instrument aboard ERS - 1, the microwave scatterometer, which deduces the speed of the wind at sea level by measuring the roughness of the sea's surface.

This map of Pluto, made from images taken by the LORRI instrument aboard New Horizons, shows a wide array of bright and dark markings of varying sizes and shapes.

The first images from the Solar Ultraviolet Imager or SUVI instrument aboard NOAA's GOES - 16 satellite have been successful, capturing a large coronal hole on Jan. 29, 2017.

Researchers have already tested the method using observations from GOSAT and the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment 2 (GOME - 2) instrument aboard the European meteorological satellite MetOp - A — with surprising results.

NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument aboard DSCOVR is taking almost - hourly images of the sunlit planet from its spot between Earth and the sun.

On March 12 at 10:50 a.m. EDT (1450 UTC) the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Storm 13P's cloud top temperatures in infrared light.

Roger Wiens, of Space and Remote Sensing, is the principal investigator behind ChemCam, a laser spectroscopy instrument aboard NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover.

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is the instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Dumazile on March 7 and showed a well - defined low - level center of circulation, and most of the clouds were pushed south of the center.

Using the MIRO instrument aboard Rosetta, scientists have studied the southern polar regions of its target comet at the end of their long winter season.

A Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) instrument aboard the vehicle measured the effect the distant world had on charged particles from the far - distant sun.

The Geophysical Laboratory's Andrew Steele joins the Rosetta team as a Co-Investigator working on the COSAC instrument aboard the Philae lander (Fred Goesmann Max Planck Institute - PI).

This movie was assembled from images taken by an instrument aboard the NASA - European Space Agency Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and provides a remarkable galactic perspective on the Sun and its place in the Milky Way.

Describes datasets produced by each instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.

IMAGE: A false color image from the HiRISE instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows amazing diversity of rocks exhumed from the Martian subsurface a meteor impact in the Nili Fossae... view more

The authors utilize line - of - sight (LOS) magnetic field data and spectral line information obtained by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

The methane - detecting instrument aboard the ISRO MOM spacecraft has been re-purposed after NASA scientists uncovered a design flaw.

This image from the radar instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft shows the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon, Titan.

As the Mars Surveyor 1998 cameras were being built, MSSS was selected in 1997 by Arizona State University to provide the Visible Imaging Subsystem (VIS) of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument aboard the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and by the Caltech / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to provide a descent camera for the Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.

The movie utilizes imagery derived from data collected by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA's Juno mission during its fourth pass over the massive planet.

A couple of seconds later, a brief burst of gamma rays were detected by an instrument aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope.