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Analyses are made for 11 years from 1979 to 1989, using the global total ozone data derived from the total ozone mapping spectrometer on board the Nimbus 7 satellite.

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).

Not exact matches

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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

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 unique power of the high - resolution and cross-dispersed NIRSPEC spectrometer at Keck permitted to simultaneously map both isotopologues of water (H2O and HDO) on Mars in January 2014.

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.

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.

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).