Sentences with phrase «of observation instruments»

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The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

That observation resonated with me somewhat, though my parents gave me the «Peter and the Wolf» introduction to instruments as well, and while our house did not echo with the sounds of classical music (in fact, my mother is a country gospel singer - songwriter and radio personality), I did grow up with a moderate understanding of and appreciation for classical music.

-- test the picture by a survey instrument (such as the one described next) that asks similar questions, and by inviting members of the congregation to review and comment on the results of your observations.

But the instrument is essentially a confirmatory device to give a quantitative indication of the belief patterns that participant observation and guided interviews examine more adequately and accurately.

The first five of these types of natural occurrence are easily accessible to sense perception (aided perhaps by instruments of observation), the sixth, however, is not available to ordinary sense perception.

What is possible for a given atomic event is heavily conditioned by the entire history of the universe, and by the instruments with which the event is observed if an observation is being made.

He who acknowledges the imperfectness of his instrument, and makes allowance for it in discussing his observations, is in a much better position for gaining truth than if he claimed his instrument to be infallible.

The team made the observations using LRO's LEND instrument, which detects hydrogen by counting the number of subatomic particles called neutrons flying off the lunar surface.

But completing the global picture will require many types of observation, including those from instruments on Earth, he adds.

Spectacular new observations of vast pillar - like structures within the Carina Nebula have been made using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope.

Benna is lead author of a paper describing observations from LADEE's Neutral Mass Spectrometer (NMS) instrument published May 28 in Geophysical Research Letters.

Titled «Measurements of Galactic Cosmic Ray Shielding with the CRaTER Instrument,» the work is based on observations made by the Cosmic Ray Telescope for the Effects of Radiation (CRaTER) on board the LRO spacecraft.

An upgraded version of Virgo, the European Gravitational Observatory's primary instrument in Italy, will begin observations in fall in conjunction with LIGO.

Experiments conducted in 1992 using NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer provided the first images of the temperature variations, and later observations from other instruments hinted at the presence of a peak.

A: We were able to secure observation time in some of the most sophisticated astronomical instruments on the planet, and that resulted in several high - impact publications — some of which are still in the works.

First was an improvement in the computer processing that transforms raw satellite observations from the Dutch - Finnish Ozone Monitoring Instrument aboard NASA's Aura spacecraft into precise estimates of sulfur dioxide concentrations.

Those observations are in jeopardy, however, with news today that the proposed budget of U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to kill Earth - facing instruments on DSCOVR years before the mission ends.

According to EPICS team leader and ESO astronomer Markus Kasper, the instrument's eight - to -10-year construction period is scheduled to start in 2019, meaning its observations of Proxima b would only begin in the late 2020s.

Moreover, the partnership with China will likely continue, and the two nations are considering the development of a new family of satellites using radar instead of optical instruments, enabling the observation of forests even through clouds.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

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.

«Other spectroscopic instruments have flown in space before but none have had this programmable multi-object capability that enables observation of up to 100 objects simultaneously, which means much more scientific investigating can get done in less time.

In addition to the observations with the SINFONI instrument the team has also made a long series of measurements of the polarisation of the light coming from the supermassive black hole region using the NACO instrument on the VLT.

Discovering a planet requires confirmation observations to distinguish a true planet orbiting the target star from a distant star that happens to sneak into GPI's field of view — a process that could take years with previous instruments.

In an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, astronomers report observations by the heat - seeking instruments aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope, which show the planet's hottest region is located near its twilight zone — the line bisecting the day and night sides.

Observations of Callisto's near - space environment by instruments on board the spacecraft Galileo, which is orbiting Jupiter, lead us to believe that there is such a sub-surface ocean.

The instrument picked up a small gas cloud that, over 9 years of observations, appeared to be getting closer and closer to Sagittarius A *.

Galileo at 400 Four centuries after his first observations, Galileo's instruments — including one of his two telescopes — are on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia through September 7 as part of «Galileo, the Medici, and the Age of Astronomy.»

In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly correlate albedo measurements made by NASA's CERES instrument data with observations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM / I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites.

If Europa's vapor plumes are confirmed by more observations, «that would change the kinds of instruments you'd want to install on future probes to the moon,» Sotin continues.

Observations were recorded by the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument as part of Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES).

The map (pictured) is built up from 95 hours of observations and was made with an instrument called the Large Area Telescope, which can scan the entire sky once every 3 hours.

Tycho Brahe was the greatest of the pre-telescopic astronomers and he made very detailed observations of the stars, the planets, everything he could see in the sky, and he did it with sophisticated instruments, but he didn't have a telescope.

In the most detailed observations of hydrogen loss to date, four of MAVEN's instruments detected the factor - of - 10 change in the rate of escape.

Before it went down, the instrument radioed in most of its observations.

New observations of the star using the SPHERE instrument on the VLT have clearly revealed how the brilliant light of VY Canis Majoris lights up the clouds of material surrounding it and have allowed the properties of the component dust grains to be determined better than ever before.

The new observations of the star used the SPHERE instrument on the VLT.

They intensified their follow - up observations of the system mainly because of a remarkable triple transit that they observed with the HAWK - I instrument on the VLT.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

MAGIC has been designed to be the most suitable instrument among imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes to perform this kind of observations.»

The work of these expeditions would be conducted «with instruments precisely alike, governed by precisely the same instructions, and for a period of one year at least, to record a series of the utmost possible synchronous observations.»

With more than 300 instrument systems providing ground - based climate observations, ARM relies heavily on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors for calibrating and assessing the status of the instruments.

The discovery was made possible by the enhanced capabilities of Advanced LIGO, a major upgrade that increases the sensitivity of the instruments compared to the first generation LIGO detectors, enabling a large increase in the volume of the universe probed — and the discovery of gravitational waves during its first observation run.

Researchers supplement the continuous observations with guest instruments during field research campaigns or by requesting increases in the frequency of measurements, such as sonde launches.

Mark Giampapa, deputy director at NSO, said Harvey «exemplifies the characteristics of a modern astronomer, from designing and building new instruments, to making innovative observations with them to gain new insight on the mysteries of our nearest star.»

In order to make efficient use of TMT, NFIRAOS and the science instruments, the observer will need to prepare their observation in advance.

Observations from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii validated that the dimming was indeed caused by a planet, using both of the 10 meter Keck telescopes: the HIRES instrument installed on Keck I and NIRC2 on the Keck II.

The camp will explore the theme of «The Visible and Hidden Universe» through several astronomical sessions, including lectures, hands - on activities, and night - time observations with the telescopes and instruments at the observatory.

Last week, observations from four of its six operating science instruments were released by NASA.

The successful applicant will work with world leading experts in advanced analytical / numerical modelling, analysis of high - resolution observations obtained by cutting - edge ground and space based instruments.