Sentences with phrase «of spectrometers»

On the other hand, the rest of the spectrometers are only capable of testing one sample at a given time.

The probes will carry a similar array of spectrometers to those on MESSENGER, and will study the planet at many different wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray.

It may have begun as the hobby of a Swiss lab technician but, ten years on, the e-CALLISTO network of spectrometers now encircles the globe, recording solar radio emissions around the clock.

With a suite of spectrometers, drills, and cameras, Dragonfly would split its mission between science in the air and on the ground.

Equipped with a rock - abrasion tool and a suite of spectrometers, the robotic geologist poked around the formation known as the Comanche outcrops, but its findings were not conclusive at the time.

India hopes its maiden Mars mission and its suite of spectrometers will show Asian rivals and the world that it has the right stuff for interplanetary exploration.

An array of spectrometers used to measure what's happening with the plasma came from Photon Control, a nearby company managers had spotted while driving past.

«We're at the ragged edge of our signal to noise,» says James Hannigan, who's in charge of the spectrometer.

The extremely small size of the spectrometer, 30 x 1.5 x 1.5 millimeters, means that measurements can be taken using an instrument the size of a matchbox.

Streich then went on to find more solvents with the aid of the spectrometer.

Also facing elimination are the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, which would observe carbon dioxide flows; a mission to the space station that would have supported tests of a spectrometer intended to measure solar reflection; and Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, a satellite that would measure the colors of the ocean to gauge the global flow of algae and the influence of ocean aerosols on cloud formation.

Construction of this spectrometer was wholly funded by DOE's Office of Basic Energy Sciences.

The scientists selected stars that shine brighter in ultraviolet, that is, from118 to 320 nanometers, the working range of the spectrometer (there were a total of 50 of them).

The efficiency of the spectrometer is better than the ones already present in the market because it can test more than one sample simultaneously.

In front of our spectrometer, the Link LED registered a very impressive score of 90 out of 100.

Not exact matches

The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

We proposed our instrument, the electron spectrometer, which measures the energy and direction of electrons, in 1989, and were selected to develop it in 1990.

For example, one of the mission's instruments called the Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE) will identify and map the amount of possible life - giving elements like organic material, salts, and acid hydrates in Europa's surface and underwater ocean.

But Lindsay and other entrepreneurs like Mark Falcone, who co-found tCheck, a company that makes a spectrometer device to test the potency of edibles, says they were kicked off all the processors at once - which is highly unusual based on the previous «Whack - a-Mole» cancelation patterns these processors had practiced in the past.

The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, or ASPX, that irradiates samples of Martian soil to determine the elemental composition of the soil.

Previous projects include an in - situ iron ore spectrometer, a mini-LIDAR device, a table - top pipetting robot, and operations and testing of the Rock Abrasion Tools on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Design of the opacity spectrometer for opacity measurements at the National Ignition Facility

Qualification of a high - efficiency, gated spectrometer for x-ray Thomson scattering on the National Ignition Facility

Calibration of scintillation - light filters for neutron time - of - flight spectrometers at the National Ignition Facility

Calibration and characterization of a highly efficient spectrometer in von Hamos geometry for 7 - 10 keV x-rays

Conceptual design of the gamma - to - electron magnetic spectrometer for the National Ignition Facility

However, the Rosina mass spectrometer aboard Rosetta found that the ratio of deuterium to hydrogen in the comet is far greater than that found on Earth, adding to the growing body of evidence that the water on Earth was delivered not by comets, as previously thought, but by asteroids.

Scientists now use an Accelerator Mass Spectrometer to determine the ratio of 14 - C to 12 - C, which increases the Assumed accuracy to 80,000 years.

As Donike said, and contrary to what most everyone in Caracas thought, the $ 200,000 worth of equipment used there — two mass spectrometers, four gas chromatographs and two computer printout machines, all American - made by Hewlett - Packard — was virtually identical to that used to test athletes in Helsinki and at last year's soccer World Cup in Madrid.

«They used to visit me at the laboratory, and one of them did a high school project using a mass spectrometer.»

Next, Peter Edwards, from the University of Leicester, fires a beam from a Raman spectrometer into the holes Cockell created.

He started out with just a few flasks and a hot plate, but eventually he filled his corner of the building with a mass spectrometer, vacuum pump, and all the lab equipment he would need to brew up new substances.

The gamma radiation emitted in the decay of its excited states was detected using the gamma ray spectrometer DALI2.

«Historically, India has not done well in science - led innovation,» according to Mashelkar, who noted that India's first and only science Nobel laureate, C. V. Raman, discovered the Raman effect but that commercialization — development of Raman spectrometers — took place in the West.

Walton and his colleagues designed a «simple, do it yourself type of kit» that's easy to bring to an art gallery and only costs $ 1000, assuming a researcher already has a hand - held x-ray reflectance spectrometer (common at many cultural heritage institutions, Walton says).

In all of these positions he utilized, maintained, and repaired mass spectrometers.

Gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers are a special breed of a class of instruments — mass spectrometers — that are used in many different areas of science, from physics to biomedical science, for the separation of atoms and molecules of different charges and molecular weights.

Detection of the impact glass by researchers at Brown University, Providence, R.I., is based on data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS)-- A student experiment provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University in Cambridge, which will observe the X-ray spectrum to identify chemical elements on Bennu's surface and their abundances.

They ran the samples through a type of mass spectrometer that not only detects which isotopes are present but how deep down they are in a surface sample.

These spectrometers analyze a narrow range of molecular weights with great precision and allow scientists to determine precisely the ratio of the isotopic constituents of matter.

The Italian Space Agency contributed an infrared spectrometer instrument and a portion of the radio science experiment.

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

Although the whole drive to understand the molecular basis of beer production involves modern tools that are used in biotechnology, such as real - time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), gene chips, proteomics, mass spectrometers, and so forth, genetic manipulation is not acceptable in any form — not in any of the raw materials or the yeast.

DAMPE's data could help to determine whether a surprising pattern in the abundance of high - energy electrons and positrons — detected by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station — comes from dark matter or from astronomical sources such as pulsars, says Pohl, who also works on the AMS.

The starlight that streams around the planet as it passes conveys valuable information — like the planet's size and the chemical makeup of its atmosphere — to the telescopes and spectrometers of Earth - bound stargazers.

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

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.

With its lasers, spectrometers, x-ray crystallographer, and other tools, it can examine the structure and chemical composition of the martian landscape.