Sentences with phrase «magnetometer instruments»

To help answer this question Juno will determine the content and mass of Jupiter's core using its Gravity Science and magnetometer instruments to measure Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields.

Our Group has built the magnetometer instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft due for launch in 2019 and has scientific involvement in the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, launching in 2018.

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NASA Goddard manages the MAVEN project and provided two science instruments for the mission, including the magnetometer.

Tarduno and his team used a unique superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID magnetometer, at the University of Rochester that provides a sensitivity ten times greater than comparable instruments.

And although some instruments on its 2 - ton, bus - sized body have faced trouble — one of its two magnetometers failed soon after it arrived at Saturn, necessitating intricate rolls to calibrate it — most have metronomically continued as Saturn's seasons shifted from spring to summer solstice during its 29.5 - year orbit.

Aboard are a dozen instruments, including sensors for visible light, ultraviolet, and infrared as well as magnetometers, radar, and plasma detectors.

But a few instruments, including MAVEN's magnetometer, remained on, conducting observations from a front - row seat during the comet's remarkably close flyby.

The Psyche spacecraft would orbit the huge metal asteroid for about 12 months, studying the topography, gravity, magnetic field and other surface features, and carry a suite of instruments, including magnetometer, imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometer.

Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument was one of two science instruments with sensors that poke out from the protective shield of the antenna (the other being Cassini's magnetometer).

The discovery was also enabled by the arrival last summer an instrument called a SQUID magnetometer (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) that can measure magnetism with great accuracy down to below 2 degrees above absolute zero.

magnetometer A scientific instrument used to measure a magnetic field (usually Earth's magnetic field).

Because of Voyager 2's great distance from the Sun and New Horizons» lack of a magnetometer — an instrument that measures magnetic fields — it's not possible to say for certain if the particle changes detected by those spacecraft were caused by this particular CME.

The Psyche spacecraft will carry four instruments to gather as much information about the asteroid as it can: a camera, a gamma - ray spectrometer to record what chemical elements are there, a magnetometer, and a radio gravity experiment.