Sentences with phrase «spectrometer onboard»

The maps and the time series (red curve) have been derived from SCIAMACHY, a spectrometer onboard the European ENVISAT satellite.

This is a side - by - side view of large cyclones at the north (left) and south (right) poles of Saturn taken in June 2008 by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard the Cassini spacecraft.

An X-ray spectrometer onboard the spacecraft measured the X-ray radiation from the planet's surface, produced by solar flares on the sun, to determine the chemical composition of more than 5,800 lava deposits on Mercury's surface.

Using a unique, high - fidelity imaging spectrometer onboard the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Asner and his team made the first - ever forest canopy maps of leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, and mass over a large portion of the biosphere covering nearly 200 million acres of Peru.

Not exact matches

Then the larger research team used data from the sensor onboard the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) to examine how the color of the lake water changed during those years — an indication of the concentration of the toxic blue - green algae present in HABs.

There, the sample was heated to temperatures high enough that the gasses within the rock were released and could be analyzed by an onboard mass spectrometer.

An onboard magnetometer will measure the depth and saltiness of the ocean and a spectrometer will measure chemicals in Europa's uppermost layers of ice.

When New Horizons arrives at the Pluto system, onboard science instruments such as Alice, a sensitive ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, will reveal even more about the composition and structure of the dwarf planet's dynamic atmosphere.

The planetary fourier spectrometer (PFS) onboard the European Venus Express mission is basically a proposal for future research - but it has lots of graphs showing what is known from previous probes.