News tagged with measuring instrument
Handover of Japan-built radar to NASA
On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) ...
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Cassini plasma spectrometer resumes operations
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has resumed operations. Mission managers received confirmation on Friday, March 16, that it was ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Spaceborne precipitation radar ships from Japan to U.S.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists and engineers have completed construction on a new instrument designed to take 3-D measurements of the shapes, sizes and other physical characteristics of both raindrops ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Young and thin instead of old and bulky: Researchers report on changes in Arctic sea ice
In the central Arctic the proportion of old, thick sea ice has declined significantly. Instead, the ice cover now largely consists of thin, one-year-old floes. This is one of the results that scientists of the Alfred Wegener ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 06, 2011 |
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NASA's Aura Satellite measures pollution from New Mexico, Arizona fires
NASA's Aura Satellite has provided a view of nitrogen dioxide levels coming from the fires in New Mexico and Arizona. Detecting nitrogen dioxide is important because it reacts with sunlight to create low-level ...
Jul 02, 2011 |
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Nano Measurement in the 3rd Dimension
From the motion sensor to the computer chip - in many products of daily life components are used whose functioning is based on smallest structures of the size of thousandths - or even millionths - of millimetres. ...
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Satellites search out South Pole snowfields
As skiers across the world pay close attention to the state of the snow on the slopes, there are a different group of scientific snow-watchers looking closely at a South Pole snowfield this January.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
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