Sentences with phrase «more precise 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.

However, as it drew closer, more precise observations showed that it would only come within a cosmic hair's breadth.

More precise observations should become possible as their 80 - year orbit carries them farther apart.

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To get a more precise, three - dimensional picture of the entire magnetosphere would require observations directly from space.

Observations of the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, by Curiosity and by the older, still - active Mars rover Opportunity are helping researchers get more precise knowledge of the moons» orbits.

► «Even as the practice of science becomes ever more advanced, the observations more precise, and the applications more prevalent, there are signs of public misapprehension, distrust, and eroding support,» wrote Rush Holt, the new chief executive officer of AAAS and executive publisher of Science, in this week's editorial.

The observations will be used to allow more precise reconstructions of historic climate shifts.

The researchers» new estimate is much more precise than previous estimates, which were based on observations of faraway stars.

Many subfields from biomechanics to ecology have gone digital, and as a result, observations are more precise and more plentiful.

In fact, taking future infrared observations of new instruments like the James Webb Space Telescope into account, distance estimates may even become much more precise.

Future observations may yield more - precise information on the masses and hence the composition of the three planets.

It will also require a particularly suitable star, he says, as well as some more precise Earth - based observations.

These characteristics mean that precise and specific targeting is valuable for ChemCam, and that the science mission would be enhanced by more frequent observations — and these are things that AEGIS» autonomous intelligent targeting can deliver.

The observations, taken with the Near Infrared Camera 2 (NIRC2) on the Keck 2 telescope more than eight years after the microlensing event, provided a precise measurement of the foreground and background stars» relative motion.

Over 5000 observation (5431 to be precise) have been loaded into the AAVSO database as for July 14th already, and you can read more about the coverage in our latest Pro-Am follow up blog.

Our barycentric radial velocities, derived from observations taken at the KPNO 2.1 meter telescope, differ from... ▽ More We demonstrate the ability to measure precise stellar barycentric radial velocities with the dispersed fixed - delay interferometer technique using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), an instrument primarily designed for precision differential Doppler velocity measurements using this technique.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

But they needed additional observations, using more precise instruments, to make a definitive call.

Observations with our more precise Very Long Baseline Array confirmed the VLA data.

Earlier observations... ▽ More The precise mechanisms that provide the non-radiative energy for heating the chromosphere and the corona of the Sun and those of other stars constitute an active field of research.

In general, survey results based on larger numbers of observations are more precise, that is, less prone to sampling variance than those made across groups with fewer numbers of observations.

In general, survey responses based on larger numbers of observations are more precise, that is, less prone to sampling variance, than those made across groups with fewer numbers of observations.

# 92 Spencer el al 2007 paper doesn't really support the precise mechanism proposed by Lindzen for Iris effect, but more simply observes a strong TOA negative correction associated with warming events at 20 ° S - 20 ° N (that is: in the 2000 - 2005 period of observation, the most significative warming episodes of the surface + low troposphere — 40 days or more — leads to a negative SW+LW cloud forcing at the top of the atmosphere).

Because the new precise observations agree with existing assessments of water vapor's impact, researchers are more confident than ever in model predictions that Earth's leading greenhouse gas will contribute to a temperature rise of a few degrees by the end of the century.

The projections will provide more details about sea - level rise, for which observations show rates increasing, and should give a more precise estimate of the levels we will see at the end of the century.

The percentage of loss in a given decadal and century period is more problematic because of the major gaps in the understandably fragmentary observations and written records establishing precise dates and numbers.