Sentences with phrase «spectrometer on»

Analyses are made for 11 years from 1979 to 1989, using the global total ozone data derived from the total ozone mapping spectrometer on board the Nimbus 7 satellite.

The Geneva team used data from HARPS, or the High Accuracy Radial Velocity for Planetary Searcher, a powerful spectrometer on a 3.6 - meter telescope in Chile.

Smith and colleagues Dr. Alexandre Shvartsburg and Dr. Keqi Tang will also receive an R&D 100 Award for their development of the Ion Mobility Spectrometer on a Microchip, Smith's tenth R&D 100 Award.

David Gates, the stellarator physics leader at PPPL by the completed X-Ray crystal spectrometer on the W7 - X in October.

The MOSDEF team uses the MOSFIRE spectrometer on the the W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes to obtain spectra for many galaxies that are located at 1.5 to 4.5 billion years after the Big Bang, the interval in which the universe formed the highest amount of stars in its history.

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption — one of the brightest ever seen on Io — on Aug. 29 at the start of a year - long series of Io observations led by de Kleer, using both the Near - Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near - infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

This is radial velocity work based on data gathered by the HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planetary Searcher) spectrometer on the 3.6 - meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory in La Silla, Chile.

«But the really difficult thing was that the spectrometer on the Galileo spacecraft was just too coarse.»

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

It will be the first UV Raman spectrometer on Mars» surface, and its ability to detect organic ring structures will be important in hunting for life.

This quantity is enough to explain much of the near - equatorial hydrogen observed beginning in 2001 by Los Alamos's neutron spectrometer on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft.

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.

One more shuttle flight could be added to the lineup to install a long - mothballed, $ 1.5 - billion telescope called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the space station.

Glycolaldehyde was detected by the mass spectrometer on board the Philae lander.

They studied the light from the objects using a spectrometer on the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

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.

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.

JS: Because we have actually flown through the plume, the mass spectrometer on board of Cassini got a direct composition measurement and found some carbon dioxide in the plume and traces of nitrogen and methane.

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 subtle spectral signature of carbonates was identified by the high - resolution CRISM spectrometer on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

This study used variations in the thermal emissivity of the surface observed by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer on the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft to identify compositional differences in lava flows at three hotspots.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet.

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.

The Viking missions of the mid-1970s and subsequent ground - based telescopic observations saw hints of clay, but they were ambiguous, and mid-infrared spectrometers on NASA's orbiting Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey probes came up blank.

This has been determined using magnetometers and spectrometers on the Galileo Spacecraft, which has been in orbit out there for a long time.

Spectrometers on orbiting spacecraft and on the MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity have previously seen indications that small quantities of carbonates were present in martian soil, but spectroscopic analysis is often a bit of a guessing game.

I can feel thermal radiation, I believe CO2 has a measured IR absorption spectrum, I believe a CO2 molecule is not a bottomless pit of energy that can be filled without ever spilling over, and this predictable spilling over is measured from spectrometers on satellites and the ground, therefore there is a CO2 greenhouse effect whose net effect on the climate is of some small and as yet imprecisely known size.

Not exact matches

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.

These results came from the space - based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, sent to the International Space Station in May, 2011 on the space shuttle Endeavor.

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.

Qualification of a high - efficiency, gated spectrometer for x-ray Thomson scattering on 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Olson's vacuum is made from an old mass spectrometer he found on eBay.

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.

The newly created objects have different sizes and shapes, among them are many elongated bodies, some of which consist of two parts, just like the comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko, which the University of Bern studied in detail with the Bern mass spectrometer ROSINA on the Rosetta spacecraft.

The team used a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to record the amount of copper, tin, zinc and lead at several points on each sculpture.

Astronomers have been telescopically studying Ceres for decades, using spectrometers to measure how certain wavelengths of light are reflected or absorbed by substances on the surface.

The network will also test cutting - edge tools like an underwater mass spectrometer — which can determine the composition of a substance on the spot — and a microbial sampler to sequence DNA on site.

An orbiting detector called the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is on the hunt.

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).

On board the International Space Station is the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which has observed other signs of dark matter annihilation.

For this purpose, they used the ISOWAT diode laser spectrometer specially developed by IMK for use on aircraft.

The ISOWAT spectrometer developed by IMK was operated on board of the CASA C - 212 of the Spanish National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA).

It was the development of the ATLAS muon spectrometer that I worked on.

Meanwhile, on the ground, earth scientists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy are taking aim at the volcano with spectrometers, which measure the types and amounts of gases spewing from its mouth.