Sentences with phrase «spectrometer instrument»

Ultra-High-Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer Instrument Handbook.

Proton Transfer Time - of - Flight Mass Spectrometer Instrument Handbook.

The team used MAVEN's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument to estimate Mars» past atmosphere.

The spectrometer instrument, known by the acronym «NGIMS,» will be located on a platform below the spacecraft, keeping it away from its own gases and allowing it to face different directions.

However, if the measurements of the ancient ratios from SAM don't match up, this suggests that we may have to look at other ways the atmosphere could have been lost, such as giant impacts from asteroids,» says Mahaffy, who is Principal Investigator for SAM and Instrument Lead for the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument on MAVEN.

Clark headed the team that developed the x-ray fluorescence spectrometer instrument, which was used to determine the chemical composition of the Martian soil.

The Martin Marietta team developed fantastic new technologies just for the Viking mission, including innovative flight software and an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer instrument to test chemical compounds in the soil.

The team used a nanoflow liquid chromatography instrument to sort the molecules in the meteorite sample, then applied nanoelectrospray ionization to give the molecules an electric charge and deliver them to a high - resolution mass spectrometer instrument, which identified the molecules based on their mass.

MIRO is a small and lightweight spectrometer instrument, the first of its kind launched into deep space.

«We're trying to find out exactly what is coming from the rings and what is due to the atmosphere,» Hunter Waite, Cassini team lead for the mass spectrometer instrument and an atmospheric scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said at the Sept. 13 news conference.

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

The landers» gas chromatograph / mass spectrometer instruments found no sign of organic chemistry at either landing site, but they did provide a precise and definitive analysis of the composition of the Martian atmosphere and found previously undetected trace elements.

Not exact matches

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.

Hydrogen - sulfide ice can form clouds, but the solid crystals are hard for chemical - analyzing instruments called spectrometers to study.

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

OSIRIS - REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS)-- An instrument provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and designed to measure visible and infrared light from Bennu to identify mineral and organic material.

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.

On board Cassini is an instrument partly designed at UCL, the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), which was used in this study.

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

- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, then about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Jupiter, observed the impacts with its ultraviolet spectrometer and a planetary radio astronomy instrument.

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 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.

From in situ measurements made over a 20 - month period by the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) of the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite on Curiosity at Gale Crater, we report detection of background levels of atmospheric methane of mean value 0.69 ± 0.25 ppbv at the 95 % confidence interval (CI).

In the original version of the technology, these peptides were detected using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which analyzes the molecular makeup of a sample.

Launched in 1997, Cassini has been exploring the Saturn system for more than nine years with a suite of instruments that also includes visible - light cameras, ultraviolet and infrared spectrometers, as well as magnetic field and charged particle sensors.

One instrument, the Relativistic Proton Spectrometer (RPS), has been providing previously unavailable particle measurements of high accuracy within the heart of the inner radiation belts.

Remote sensing of atmospheric gases — from a satellite, for instance — can be performed with conventional instruments called spectrometers, but while satellite instruments have global coverage, they sample specific regions on Earth infrequently.

Then the device drives the water sample into an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which detects thousands of molecules as a molecular fingerprint.

It analyzed the planet's composition with an instrument called a reflectance spectrometer, which collects light and then splits that light into its component wavelengths to figure out which elements the light was reflected from.

The telescope, which recently lost one of its four main instruments, the imaging spectrometer, could fail as early as 2007 without new batteries.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

The instrument, called a spectrometer, breaks apart the light of the star and planet, ultimately exposing chemicals that make up the planet's atmosphere.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

Initially, AXAF was to have had six precision mirrors focusing X-rays onto three instruments — a «camera» to image the position of X-ray sources and two spectrometers.

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.

The OMEGA spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has gone where no spectrometer has gone before, covering near - infrared wavelengths and offering 10 times the resolution of earlier instruments.

No previous mission has been able to tackle that question,» says David Brain, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Colorado in Boulder who is helping design Hope's instruments, a high - resolution camera and infrared and ultraviolet spectrometers.

As the spacecraft edges closer over the summer, different instruments will start to work: cameras and spectrometers at various wavelengths, mass spectrometers, chemical analyzers, and sounding instruments.

Christopher Webster of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the instrument lead for the Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS), Curiosity's atmospheric analyzer.

Widder was thus well prepared to operate one of the scientific instruments on board, a supersensitive spectrometer that measures the color of light.

«The view from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer gives us a holistic view of an area that we'd only seen in bits and pieces before and at a lower resolution,» said Jason Barnes, a participating scientist for the instrument at the University of Idaho, Moscow.

The pair of rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars in 2004, carrying identical payloads of instruments, including panoramic cameras and spectrometers for examining soil.

The OMI and GOME - 2 instruments are spectrometers, which can pinpoint different trace gases in wavelength ranges, providing a measure of Earth's entire atmosphere in a single day.

«Here we see the excellent performance of the Herschel - SPIRE spectrometer, the expertise of the instrument team in producing the highest quality data, and the tenacity and vision of the scientists analysing it, all coming together to make an intriguing new discovery.»

The CALLISTO (Compound Astronomical Low - cost Low - frequency Instrument for Spectroscopy in Transportable Observatory) spectrometers, designed and built by electronics engineer Christian Monstein of the Institute for Astronomy of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich), record the intensity of electromagnetic radiation at radio frequencies, between 45 and 870 megahertz.

For example, NASA's Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer, or TOMS, launched in 1996, is the first instrument that can track dust storms over both land and sea.

The data were gathered using the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on Chandra, an instrument conceived and designed by a team led by Penn State Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Gordon Garmire.

Using an instrument called a mass spectrometer, scientists could peer at molecules of ice and learn the temperature on the day that the snow fell.

And ROSINA, a Rosetta instrument that uses spectrometers to measure gas abundances, has obtained a highly sought after result: the so - called deuterium - to - hydrogen ratio of water in the comet's thin atmosphere, or coma.