Sentences with phrase «mission as an instrument»

Participants also discussed other options for securing the TSIS data record, including acceleration of the decadal survey recommendation for CLARREO, flying a series of dedicated spacecraft, and accommodation of TSIS on already - planned missions as an instrument of opportunity (e.g., on GOES - R or DSCOVR).

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Duff spoke of an intellectual and social revolutionary ferment at work among the educated sections of India through the impact of western power and culture and wanted the Missions to enter that revolution to make it serve as an instrument of the civilizing and evangelizing mission of Britain in India.

Obviously the Roman Curia bears a heavier responsibility because, as Pope Paul VI stated: «It is that instrument needed by the Pope for the fulfilment of his mission.»

The word missional, with reference to the church, sees the church as the instrument of God's mission.

Beginning at Nairobi, and continuing at Melbourne, the church appears to have been rehabilitated in WCC circles as an instrument for mission.

The Pope has spoken of Opus Dei as an instrument of energetic orthodoxy that is a great gift for the renewal of the Church and its mission in the world.

CSA, as a federal government agency, is contributing the Meteorological Instrument Package (MET) to NASA for incorporation into the Phoenix mission.

As superb as these maps are, they are only the beginning — these contain less than 10 percent of the measurements that MOLA can potentially collect during the Global Surveyor mapping mission, and the MOLA instrument is collecting about 900,000 measurements of elevation every daAs superb as these maps are, they are only the beginning — these contain less than 10 percent of the measurements that MOLA can potentially collect during the Global Surveyor mapping mission, and the MOLA instrument is collecting about 900,000 measurements of elevation every daas these maps are, they are only the beginning — these contain less than 10 percent of the measurements that MOLA can potentially collect during the Global Surveyor mapping mission, and the MOLA instrument is collecting about 900,000 measurements of elevation every day.

In the MMS mission, each of the four identical spacecraft has numerous instruments measuring magnetic and electric fields as well as the motion of ions and electrons.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

Sporting new instruments, as well as refurbished versions of detectors originally used on balloon flights over Antarctica, the refrigerator - sized, 1.4 - ton (1,300 kilogram) ISS - CREAM experiment will be delivered to the space station as part of the 12th SpaceX commercial resupply service mission.

«As Fermi opens its second act, both the spacecraft and its instruments remain in top - notch condition and the mission is delivering outstanding science,» said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division in Washington.

He continues, «This is especially important because upcoming space missions such as TESS and PLATO should find many small planets around bright stars and we will want to follow up the discoveries with ground - based instruments.»

Herbert Funsten is recognized as a world - renowned experimental space scientist and has led science instruments on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) and Van Allen Probes missions and national security instruments on the DOE's SABRS Validation Experiment (SAVE) and Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS) payloads, while also participating in NASA's Cassini, Two Wide - angle Imaging Neutral - atom Spectrometers (TWINS), Deep Space 1, Mars Odyssey, and Imager for Magnetopause - to - Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) missions.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

Four student teams will define the scientific objectives of a space mission and will provide a preliminary end - to - end design of spacecraft, scientific instruments as well as mission and science operations that will meet their stated objectives.

The Nili Fossae region is important to the ExoMars 2016 TGO mission as it is thought to be one of the potential source regions for transient methane gas in the Martian atmosphere that the other instruments on the orbiter is hoping to detect, characterize and determine its origins.

Astronaut is a new job title for her, but her experience includes work as an EE for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she contributed scientific instruments on several NASA missions.

As part of that mission, it flies close to the cloud tops that obscure the planet's surface, using its instruments to take images, study the auroras and find out more about the world's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

«This is especially important because upcoming space missions such as TESS and PLATO should find many small planets around bright stars and we will want to follow up the discoveries with ground - based instruments,» de Mooij said.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

The university provided science instruments and leads science operations, as well as education and public outreach, for the mission.

Dr. Martínez Pillet is a Senior Scientist at the Instituto de Astrofíscia de Canarias, where he is the Co-Principal Investigator for the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager instrument to be flown on the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission, and Principal Investigator for the Imaging Magnetograph Experiment that has flown as part of the Sunrise balloon - borne telescope.

The MAVEN science team includes three LASP scientists heading up instrument teams — Nick Schneider, Frank Eparvier, and Robert Ergun — as well as a large supporting team of scientists, engineers and missions operations specialists.

As a member of the engineering staff, her research work encompassed a multidisciplinary approach to the development and testing of analytical instruments for planetary exploration missions with the focus on transitioning fundamental scientific research and early technological demonstrations toward breadboard and brassboard instrumentation development.

MSSS will also provide two instruments based on the MARDI / MARCI architecture for the Mars Surveyor 2001 mission: a descent imager for the»01 lander and a visible imaging subsystem as part of Arizona State University's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) for the»01 orbiter.

The Glory mission (Mishchenko et al., 2007a), which was expected to begin operations this year, would have measured the aerosol direct forcing, as it carried an instrument capable of measuring polarization to an accuracy about 0.1 percent.

The instrument used to measure the OLR on board the satellite missions is known as the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR), a radiometer which measures radiation in four to six channels.

Physical accommodation challenges include, for example, instrument sensitivity to the planned mission's radiation and thermal environment, as well as ability to fit within the spacecraft's available payload resource allocations.

Our mission is to bring unprecedented transparency to the derivatives» market, as well as develop the new derivatives, which won't leave any chances for the old shady trading instruments to exist.