Sentences with phrase «mapping spectrometer»
A mapping spectrometer is a device that helps scientists detect and measure the different colors of light produced by an object. It creates a map or image of the object showing the distribution of light at different wavelengths or colors. Full definition
The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).
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A bizarre six - sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
«Scientists have wondered why the high atmospheres of Saturn and other gas giants are heated far beyond what might normally be expected by their distance from the sun,» said Sarah Badman, a Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team associate at Lancaster University, England.
Dawn has also found evidence for clay minerals, or phyllosilicates, on Ceres, using the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument (VIR).
The infrared auroras show up in green in this false - color composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, stitched together from 65 individual observations taken by the probe's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in 2008.
are visible in this image captured by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer during the flyby.
During Cassini's two close Enceladus flybys this spring, its Visual Infrared Mapping Spectrometer detected strong signatures in Saturn's magnetic field around the moon.
«The view from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer gives us a holistic view of an area that we'd only seen in bits and pieces before and at a lower resolution,» said Jason Barnes, a participating scientist for the instrument at the University of Idaho, Moscow.
Data from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer show an unusually high concentration of organic matter close to the 50 - km diameter Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere of Ceres.
Mars Express» high - resolution stereoscopic camera, and a mineralogical mapping spectrometer, both originated with Mars 96.
This is a side - by - side view of large cyclones at the north (left) and south (right) poles of Saturn taken in June 2008 by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft.
The spacecraft's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer examines how various wavelengths of sunlight are reflected by the surface of Ceres.
Zhang, S., J.E. Penner, and O. Torres, 2005: Inverse modeling of biomass burning emissions using Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer aerosol index for 1997.
The first two maps are based on data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) on the Nimbus - 7 satellite.
«We're busy working on analyzing the infrared data from this special view of the Saturn system,» said Phil Nicholson, a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team member from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. «The infrared data should tell us more about the sizes of the particles which make up the D, E, F and G rings, and how these sizes vary with location in the rings, as well as providing clues as to their chemical composition.»
The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer is examining how various wavelengths of light are reflected by Ceres, which will help identify minerals present on its surface.
At Kraken Mare, however, Cassini researchers detected a wavelike feature with both the spacecraft's radar and a mapping spectrometer.
Armed with data from Dawn's Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, De Sanctis and colleagues examined a broad range of spectra for the entire Cereian surface, including the crucial infrared wavelengths.
Using Cassini's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, planetary scientists discovered that Phoebe's surface is among the most complex in the solar system.
Combe and colleagues used Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) to detect probable water ice at Oxo Crater, a small, bright, sloped depression at mid-latitudes on Ceres.
The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer was provided by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, built by Selex ES, and is managed and operated by the Italian Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Rome.
At the same time, Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer is collecting data that will give scientists a better understanding of the minerals found on Ceres» surface.
And until now, Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer and imaging science subsystem had only been able to capture distant, oblique or partial views of this area.
The colorized mosaic from the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, which maps infrared colors onto the visible - color spectrum, reveals differences in the composition of material around the lakes.
For example, NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, or TOMS, launched in 1996, is the first instrument that can track dust storms over both land and sea.
The visible and infrared mapping spectrometer was provided by the Italian Space Agency and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, was built by Selex ES, and is managed by Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology in Rome.
But this study, using the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) aboard Cassini, did not find that:
The instruments used look below the surface of Ceres, rather than the surface as with the camera, visible mapping spectrometer and infrared mapping spectrometer.
When it did in 2012, the scientists used Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer to stare at the northern lakes.
Also, evidence from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer and gamma ray and neutron detector indicates that there is hydrated material within some rocks on Vesta's surface, suggesting that Vesta is not entirely dry.
These include the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer and the gamma ray and neutron detector.
Prospero, J.M. et al. (2002): Environmental characterization of global sources of atmospheric soil dust identified with the nimbus 7 total ozone mapping spectrometer (TOMS) absorbing aerosol product, Rev. Geophys.
Dawn has a high - quality camera, along with a back - up; a visible and near - infrared mapping spectrometer to identify minerals on the surface; and a gamma ray and neutron spectrometer to reveal the abundance of elements such as iron and hydrogen, possibly from water, in the soil.
«This is the first time we see this kind of material elsewhere in the solar system in such a large amount,» said Maria Cristina De Sanctis, lead author and principal investigator of Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer.
They used data from the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, a device that looks at how various wavelengths of light are reflected by the surface, allowing minerals to be identified.
A study that appeared in the 2013 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Calif., by a team led by Jim Shirley, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, presented evidence for the existence of a narrow ring of phyllosilicates on the moon's surface, which were uncovered through an analysis of photographs taken with Galileo's Near - Infrared Mapping Spectrometer.
Framing Camera (MPS / DLR) Visible Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (LANL) Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (ASI / INAF)
This phase will last for 22 days, and is designed to obtain a global view of Ceres with Dawn's framing camera, and global maps with the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR).
This time was different: Cassini's VIMS (Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer) obtained spectra of the storm head and its vicinity.
The measurements were made from 1979 — 2003 by NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instruments, and from 2004 — present by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute's Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) that flies on NASA's Aura satellite.
Comparison between the monthly averaged pressure of the phase change and the corresponding concentration of ozone in the ozone layer, for 45 - 60 ° N. Ozone concentrations (in Dobson Units) were calculated from NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) satellite measurements.
We downloaded from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's website all of the available monthly averaged ozone measurements from the NASA Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) satellite (August 1996 - November 2005).
The first part of this thesis compares the seasonal cycle and interannual variability of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) and Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) satellite retrievals over the Northern Hemisphere subtropical Atlantic Ocean, where soil dust aerosols make the largest contribution to the aerosol load, and are assumed to dominate the variability of each data set.
Observe the location of the ozone croissant and that of the South Magnetic Pole marked by an arrow on this daily NASA survey using the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, TOMS (Fig 3):
The map at left shows the distribution of ozone in the atmosphere on July 14th and 15th, 2000, measured by the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS).