Sentences with phrase «uses spectrometers»

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.

For instance, astronomers have traditionally estimated the distances to remote galaxies using a spectrometer, which divides light from an object into its constituent wavelengths.

«Infrared is invisible to the naked eye but detectable using a spectrometer.

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 satellite is destined for an orbit 438 miles above Earth and will use a spectrometer to measure CO2 concentrations in the air 24 times per second

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

For more ambiguous types of waste, such as a piece of plywood with nails driven through it, the robot uses a spectrometer to recognise objects based on the unique patterns of light they reflect.

If you have a fluorescent molecule, you can use the spectrometer to determine what the molecule is by its color, and you can use the resonant mass sensor to tell how many molecules there are.

From the air, ecologist Greg Asner uses a spectrometer and high - powered lasers to map nature in meticulous...

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That's the new Diet Sensor app, which uses SCiO, the world's first pocket spectrometer, to instantaneously scan your food and give you it's nutritional value.

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.

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.

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.

For her testing, Rubin uses an XRF gun, which stands for X-ray fluorescence spectrometer.

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

The milestone is defined as «events recorded from beam - target interactions using the Hall A spectrometer detector systems with 3 - pass > 6 GeV beam energy and at least 2 nA average beam current.»

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

The magnetic spectrometers, HKS (High resolution Kaon Spectrometer) and HES (High resolution Electron spectrometer) used for theSpectrometer) and HES (High resolution Electron spectrometer) used for thespectrometer) used for the experiment.

Once he had the signal from the lab glass, he used an algorithm designed to pick out similar signals in data from the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM), which flies aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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.

In addition to learning how to use a Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) for separation and product characterization, my students will do literature searches about possible chemical synthesis routes.

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

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.

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.

Next, Agee and his colleagues used a laser to extract water molecules trapped within minerals in the meteorite and fed them into a mass spectrometer to calculate the ratio of deuterium, a heavy isotope of hydrogen, to ordinary hydrogen.

The method used to measure the neutral clusters utilizes a combination of a mass spectrometer and a chemical ionization source, which was developed by the University of Frankfurt and the University of Helsinki.

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.

«To do this kind of work, you need to be able to use the tools we use for analysis», such as mass spectrometers, he says.

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

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.

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

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.

They took sludge samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized in a superhot plasma.

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.

Intense extreme ultraviolet FEL pulses were directed at the clusters and the resultant energy distribution of electrons knocked out of the clusters was measured using a «velocity map imaging spectrometer».

Wynn - Williams will soon use a mini Raman spectrometer — called a CMaRS — that he can carry into the field in his backpack to detect the fossilized pigments of ancient cyanobacteria.

Maria Zatko used this mass spectrometer in her crowdfunded research project when she was a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington in Seattle.

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.

Using Cassini's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, planetary scientists discovered that Phoebe's surface is among the most complex in the solar system.

Using a proton - transfer reaction mass spectrometer, they were able to measure a wider range of compounds coming out of tailpipes more rapidly than in previous reports.

The New Horizons spacecraft's spectrometer uses light to provide information about a planet's physical and chemical composition.

He searches for organics in dinosaur fossils by using heat to break down molecules into volatile components and running them through a mass spectrometer.

The scientists worked with model bacteria that are representative of the sort of microbial lifeforms that might be expected to have emerged on Mars and used a Raman spectrometer to track how the detectable signal from them changed with increasing exposure to radiation.

Using an accelerator mass spectrometer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the geologists measured how much beryllium - 10 was in their samples — giving them a kind of clock to measure erosion over long time spans.

Combe and colleagues used Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer (VIR) to detect probable water ice at Oxo Crater, a small, bright, sloped depression at mid-latitudes on Ceres.

Dr. Hideaki Fujiwara, Subaru Public Information Officer / Scientist, analyzed data taken in January 2008 using the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer (COMICS) on the telescope to produce a beautiful image of Saturn for public information purposes.

Prather and her team use special single - particle mass spectrometers, which sample cloud droplets and ice crystals in real - time.

The $ 11 million scanner measures the shape and chemical signatures of the forest using lidar and a spectrometer, allowing scientists to identify individual tree species, determine their health, and measure their size and mass precisely — all from the air.

A device called the integrated ion - trap - time - of - flight mass spectrometer, which was invented by Hudson's lab and which was used to discover the reaction — was featured on a recent episode of the sitcom «The Big Bang Theory.»