Sentences with phrase «made close observations»

In expeditions to sites around the nearby bay, the team of students made close observations — scientific, cartographic, etymological, even poetic and political — that they brought together as a striking and useful field guide called Perspectives of the San Diego Bay (September 2005)

Not exact matches

The spacecraft also made magnetic field observations when it got closer to the Saturn.

Astronomers based their analysis of comet Lovejoy, published last Friday in Science Advances, on observations made in January when the comet passed so close to the sun it could be seen with the naked eye.

After a year of observations, scientists waited with bated breath on Nov. 28, 2013, as Comet ISON made its closest approach to the sun, known as perihelion.

New Horizons flew through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015, making the first close observations of Pluto and its family of five moons.

«If you just make a list of the closest stars to the Sun, there's a handful there that would make good targets for these kinds of observations,» Blake says.

Observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope yielded a diameter nearer 2600 km, and another group, using the IRAM radio telescope in Spain, upped the value to something closer to 3000 km.

This cloud is now making its closest approach and new VLT observations show that it is being grossly stretched by the black hole's extreme gravitational field.

This comet is making its first visit this close to the sun from the outer solar system's Oort Cloud, so the concerted campaign of observations may yield fresh clues to our solar system's earliest days more than 4 billion years ago.

That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»

Follow - up observations revealed that this object had already sped through the inner solar system, having made closest approach with the sun in September.

The results from these simulations will be applied to interpret current observations of extrasolar planets and close binary stars, and to make predictions.

We have made a step closer to the realization of observations with Japanese receivers.

According to observations made by NASA and ESA orbiters, the extremely close flyby of comet C / 2013 A1 Siding Spring was accompanied by a meteor shower larger than any seen on Earth.

Three separate observations made between December 2011 and February 2014 show that the clump of stellar material surrounding the star system is being blown away at incredibly high speeds as the pulsar makes its closest approach to the star every 41 months.

Michael Kelley, who is leading the TC4 observation campaign, said in a statement: «Scientists have always appreciated knowing when an asteroid will make a close approach to and safely pass the Earth because they can make preparations to collect data to characterize and learn as much as possible about it.

«Crucially, our study also suggests that tidal heating could make deeply buried oceans more accessible to future observations by moving them closer to the surface,» said Joe Renaud of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, a co-author on the paper.

As the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn, it made numerous observations during a series of close flybys of Titan beginning in late 2004.

By tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these stars.

However, ground - based observations of Pluto taken in 1988 and 2002 show that Pluto's atmosphere has doubled over that time, possibly due to the amount of ice turning into a gas as Pluto makes its closest approach to the Sun in its orbit.

I was making an observation based on extensive personal contact with the mental ill and 2 very close family members.

On closer observation and scrutiny it is found that many fake profiles have been made.

Leenhardt talks about intelligence and some of its social functions, making observations that apply to all of the writers cited in the closing sequence, including Elie Faure, Andre Malraux, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, Jacques Rivette, and Marguerite Duras.

There are health risks, but Gardner makes the trip and swiftly sneaks off from quarantine and close observation.

Making sure observations included attention to equity, woven throughout evaluation criteria, and incorporating that core value into professional development contributed to efforts to help close the achievement gap between white and minority students.

They made observations using non-evaluative descriptors such as «10 out of 30 students have their books closed.»

However, closer observation reveals that there is a curvaceousness to the design that also makes it look a bit fun and approachable with its Grumpy Cat face and rounded silhouette.

He also makes reference to Hugh Howey's statement that the vast majority of midlist authors should be paid more attention to since they start to make a living from their writing and their income is worth a close observation.

Given the observation made in the first analysis above, let's take a closer look at the fund's more recent performance.

Thorp, the quantitative investor, valued securities on a probabilistic basis and relied on the statistical phenomenon known as «the law of large numbers» — the law states that more observations we make, the closer our sample will be to the population, and hence greater the certainty of our prediction — to construct portfolios of securities that would, in aggregate, outperform the market.

Visual ability to see details at a close range and to make observations and assessments necessary in animal care.

Chilian also advises retailers to pay close attention to what their customers» preferences are, then make merchandising decisions based on those observations.

Artist Statement Every thing, under close enough observation, will reveal the complete story of its making.

Their accumulation conveys the overwhelming extent to which this sort of close observation makes its subjects appear as «the other» — intrinsically different and alienated from us — as a result of being singled out.

Upon closer observation, man - made pollution in the water suggests that Gursky's sublime image is very much in and of its time.

If I correclty understood you critisize Michaels for misusing short term data (actually cherry - picking end points) to make impression that future observations will be close to the low end of IPCC range.

The small size and cheap cost mean that these microscopes could be used by anyone from first responders inspecting suspicious materials to researchers and medical professionals in the field to school kids making their first up - close observations of objects.

Since (by then) not all models showed more warming aloft than on the surface (which I wouldn't call a strong sign of reliability in the models) the gap between models and observations closed just enough to make both statistically compatible.

More slight of hand in his figure 4 where he used very different temperature scales to make it look as if his selected CMIP3 runs were close to matching observations.

However, I conducted an experiment in which I made observations that had a precision of 1 cm and found that the average of those measurements was much closer on three separate occasions to the average of the more precise observations than 1 cm.

Recent eyewitness reports of open water from melting ice at the North Pole have prompted climatologists and other scientists to make a closer study of satellite imagery and other observations of northern sea ice, past and present.

One of the instructors gained much mirth and many free drinks at the mess from his observation that «Dress an bag of s & % t in DP's and you just make it harder to spot, but up close it's still a bag of s & % t».

Much has been made of the lack of agreement between the model projections and observations, with the observations being perilously close to falling outside the entire range of model projections.

I will close with an observation an audience member made about Rod Macdonald, «mentor to generations of lawyers», to the effect that academics should strive to embrace new ways of communicating our work as modes of communication change.