News articles tagged with 'spectrometer'
Tool makes search for Martian life easier
— 9 Feb 2011 17:02 | AstronomyFinding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover…
Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
— 4 Feb 2011 16:49 | AstronomyEvery day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes' London, the moon looks…
New technology to speed cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites
— 4 Jan 2011 21:35 | EnvironmentMembers of the engineering faculty at Oregon State University have invented a new type of radiation detection and measurement device that will be particularly useful for cleanup of…
Thin air - Cassini finds ethereal atmosphere at Rhea
— 30 Nov 2010 21:38 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected a very tenuous atmosphere known as an exosphere, infused with oxygen and carbon dioxide around Saturn's icy moon Rhea. This is the first time…
Mars volcanic deposit tells of warm and wet environment
— 31 Oct 2010 18:16 | AstronomyRoughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold.…
Scientists find evidence for widespread water ice on the moon
— 23 Oct 2010 17:53 | AstronomyScientists from NASA's Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment team have detected the widespread presence of water ice in large areas of the moon's south pole…
Can you analyse me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom
— 8 Oct 2010 13:45 | TechnologyUniversity of Illinois chemistry professor Alexander Scheeline wants to see high school students using their cell phones in class. Not for texting or surfing the Web, but as an analytical…
Saturn's icy moon may keep oceans liquid with wobble
— 8 Oct 2010 13:12 | AstronomySaturn's icy moon Enceladus should not be one of the most promising places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Instead, it should have frozen solid billions of years…
NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space
— 2 Oct 2010 12:38 | AstronomyA major instrument due to fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is getting its first taste of space in the test facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the…
Cassini gazes at veiled Titan
— 24 Sep 2010 11:59 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft will swing high over Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Sept. 24, taking a long, sustained look at the hazy moon. At closest approach, Cassini will fly within…