Sentences with phrase «with spectrometers»

All of these measurements were conducted with spectrometers built exclusively in the Ziurys group, which includes three mm / sub - mm / THz direct absorption spectrometers and one Fourier transform microwave / mm instrument.

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.

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.

Fitted with a spectrometer that measured the varying wavelengths of light reflected back to Earth, the scope allowed him to determine Europa's composition, and prove that its surface is an expanse of frozen water.

The ChemCam instrument — which vaporizes material with a high - powered laser and reads the resultant plasma with a spectrometer — has shown a similar composition to fine - grained dust characterized on other parts of the planet during previous Martian missions.

From its orbit 705 kilometres above Earth's surface, OCO - 2 will peer down into the atmosphere with a spectrometer, monitoring the level of CO2 in the atmosphere by detecting sunlight reflected by molecules of the greenhouse gas.

+ A new, «Bushwick - style» gallery opened up inside the lower level of the Williamsburg Savings Bank, bringing street artists and contemporary sculptors together for an opening you could just as well experience with a spectrometer.

Measuring with a spectrometer what is left from the radiation of a broadband infrared source (say a black body heated at 1000 °C) after crossing the equivalent of some tens or hundreds of meters of the air, shows that the main CO2 bands (4.3 µm and 15 µm) have been replaced by the emission spectrum of the CO2 which is radiated at the temperature of the trace - gas.

Not exact matches

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 process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

Fueled by $ 154 million from investors, Ginkgo recently opened its second «foundry,» an 18,000 - square - foot factory stocked with fermentation tanks, mass spectrometers, software, robots, and traditional bench biology tools to design, build, and test DNA.

Lineshape spectroscopy with a very high resolution, very high signal - to - noise crystal spectrometer

Fossil are analyzed with chromatographs and spectrometers which tell you the composition in great detail and accuracy.

Science is not always done with a microscope and 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.»

He started out with just a few flasks and a hot plate, but eventually he filled his corner of the building with a mass spectrometer, vacuum pump, and all the lab equipment he would need to brew up new substances.

DESI works with everyday surfaces, liberating ions that flow into the spectrometer through a sampling tube.

In some ways, a California company seems an odd choice for an upstate New York scientist who was determined to put down roots, but with a 90 % market share of gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers, applying to Thermo Finnigan was pretty much a no - brainer for someone with Burdett's experience, and it worked out.

These spectrometers analyze a narrow range of molecular weights with great precision and allow scientists to determine precisely the ratio of the isotopic constituents of matter.

Thermo Finnigan's, and Burdett's, expertise is with gas - source isotope ratio mass spectrometers and the peripherals that are attached to them.

- 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.

With its lasers, spectrometers, x-ray crystallographer, and other tools, it can examine the structure and chemical composition of the martian landscape.

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.

At Kraken Mare, however, Cassini researchers detected a wavelike feature with both the spacecraft's radar and a mapping spectrometer.

Examination of some of the scarps with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that the bright material is frozen water.

Armed with data from Dawn's Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer, De Sanctis and colleagues examined a broad range of spectra for the entire Cereian surface, including the crucial infrared wavelengths.

For an international spy with a handheld spectrometer, it could be a handy way to send messages while avoiding cyber-snoops.

The new study pairs HiRISE observations with mineral mapping by MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).

Farther out, a 2300 - ton structure of steel and scintillators measures the energies of strongly interacting particles, and, finally, from a radius of 5 to 10 m, the so - called «muon spectrometer» measures the momentum of muons with 2000 m2 of high precision positioning detectors.

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.

In nano - FTIR, a sharp metalized tip is illuminated with a broadband infrared laser beam, and the backscattered light is analyzed with a specially designed Fourier transform spectrometer.

The spectrometer analyzed the chemical composition of the water samples and the researchers compared the resulting data with a large list of 1,100 «suspect chemicals» by employing a nimble data - mining algorithm.

«We're busy working on analyzing the infrared data from this special view of the Saturn system,» said Phil Nicholson, a visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team member from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. «The infrared data should tell us more about the sizes of the particles which make up the D, E, F and G rings, and how these sizes vary with location in the rings, as well as providing clues as to their chemical composition.»

After verifying the inclusions with a scanning electron microscope, researchers have to slice into the diamonds with a laser and extract the tiny particles for analysis via mass spectrometer.

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.

Working with the Canadian Space Agency, GHGSat spent three years designing a satellite whose lightweight imaging spectrometer can focus on an area as small as 164 square feet.

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.

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.

Working with mass spectrometers, where you can apply physics and chemistry to try to understand rocks from Earth and other planets, brought together everything I wanted to do and to learn about.

Sharp used a mass spectrometer to measure the ratio of uranium to thorium in the coral and then, with a single age equation, calculated when the coral first grew on a reef.

Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the Department of Geoscience at UW — Madison, with the mass spectrometer used to measure isotopes in rocks from South Africa.

The term «microreactor» sounds complicated, but basically it is just a small container with a stir bar for mixing chemical samples and a very thin needle for spraying and ionizing the sample for analysis witha mass spectrometer.

«By hooking up a microreactor to a mass spectrometer, reactions can be followed in real time with high sensitivity and selectivity.

Armed with cameras, a spectrometer and ground - penetrating radar, the mission's Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, rover might help to piece together the moon's volcanic history.

Along with their colleagues, the solar physicists will haul a spectrometer — a device that splits sunlight into its component wavelengths — to the top of Casper Mountain in Wyoming in the back of a truck.

Elias is excited about the prospect of combining the technique with available portable Raman spectrometers that can be taken to remote places to detect, for instance, dangerous viruses.

«Our very broad dual combs have a moderate spacing between the successive lines of the frequency comb, as compared to gas spectrometers which can get away with a less broad dual comb but need a fine spacing between the lines of the comb.»

Columbia Engineering's compact, chip - scale dual comb spectrometer was able to measure a broad spectrum of dichloromethane in just 20 microseconds (there are 1,000,000 microseconds in one second), a task that would have taken at least several seconds with conventional spectrometers.

«Our data are consistent with the presence of water ice across a significant number of craters,» said William C. Feldman, co-investigator and spectrometer specialist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

In addition, the probe's spectrometer gathered far more detail than Pilcher's Earth - based tool, revealing a surface abounding with sulfur, sulfur dioxide, and other biological necessities.