Sentences with phrase «ray spectrometer»

The Psyche spacecraft will carry four instruments to gather as much information about the asteroid as it can: a camera, a gamma - ray spectrometer to record what chemical elements are there, a magnetometer, and a radio gravity experiment.

At the urging of planetary scientist Richard Morris of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, who works on Spirit's Mössbauer gamma - ray spectrometer, Ruff's group went back to review its data from the Comanche outcrops.

The data from the gamma - ray spectrometer and from a third spectrometer agreed with the Mini-TES spectra.

The new finding is based on data from the gamma ray spectrometer on Mars Odyssey, which can measure concentrations of various chemical elements as far as about 30 centimetres below the Martian surface.

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

X-ray and gamma - ray spectrometers will analyze nearby rocks.

Not exact matches

Gamma - to - electron magnetic spectrometer (GEMS): An energy - resolved gamma - ray diagnostic for the National Ignition Facility

By looking at the ratio of two of these cosmic - ray - made elements — aluminum - 26 and beryllium - 10 caught in crystals of quartz, and measured in an accelerator mass spectrometer — the scientists were able to calculate how long the rocks in their samples had been exposed to the sky versus covered by ice.

Using the SAM mass spectrometer to measure the abundance of three isotopes that result from cosmic - ray bombardment — helium - 3, neon - 21, and argon - 36 — Farley and his colleagues calculated that the mudstone at Yellowknife Bay has been exposed at the surface for about 80 million years.

A fancy cosmic - ray detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, is about to scan the cosmos for dark matter, antimatter and more

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is a $ 1.5 billion piece of kit built to scour cosmic rays for just such signs.

«Precise measurements of the energy of gamma - ray quanta which we were able to perform with the AGATA spectrometer, helped us to clarify two issues.

The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has already cataloged more than 60 billion protons, electrons and other spaceborne subatomic particles, known as cosmic rays, as they zip by.

But the spectrometer scrutinizes pristine cosmic rays — some of which have traveled undisturbed over millions of light - years — from its perch some 400 kilometers above Earth.

EYES ON THE INVISIBLE PRIZE Designed to detect cosmic rays, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cruises above Earth on the International Space Station.

The Psyche spacecraft would orbit the huge metal asteroid for about 12 months, studying the topography, gravity, magnetic field and other surface features, and carry a suite of instruments, including magnetometer, imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometer.

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 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.

Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station (ISS) will be the focus of the three day «AMS Days at CERN» meeting, an occasion that brings together many of the world's leading theoretical physicists and principal investigators of some of the major experiments exploring the field of cosmic ray physics (IceCube, Pierre Auger Observatory, Fermi - LAT, H.E.S.S. and CTA, the Telescope Array, JEM - EUSO, and ISS - CREAM).

The mechanism of deflection of cosmic rays is the same as what occurs in a laboratory mass spectrometer (you can google that for the basic physics).