Satellite Infrared Spectrometer

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• Machine Vision Industry Focus: Putting Light to Work
  is done, the beef has long since been shipped to supermarkets, having been graded by visual techniques. To provide a more accurate determination of beef tenderness, a clever designer developed a test that uses near infrared (NIR) reflectance spectroscopy. The spectrometer mounts above a conveyor belt...
• Hubble Captures a Grand View of the Birth of "Hefty" Stars
  . The images of this region, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), show immense clouds of dust, several in the form of pillars 5 to 10 light-years tall, giant incubators where young stars and multiple star systems...
• Candidates for exploring Mars
  the Mars Volcanic Emission and Life Scout mission, Marvel for short. It places a spacecraft in a near polar orbit, one that crosses close to both poles and almost perpendicular to the equator. The craft carries a solar occultation infrared spectrometer that takes measurements by looking at light from...
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  infrared Fourier transform spectrometer will be focused on Venus. This is, in part, due to a fortuitous gap in the regular Earth observations resulting from the spacecraft orbit. Researchers at the ACE science operations centre at the University of Waterloo, with the support the Canadian Space Agency...
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  ILAS (Improved Limb Atmospheric Spectrometer). ILAS orbited for more than a year and collected data on stratospheric cloud particles using the same infrared spectroscopic techniques Sloan uses in his lab. "They put their satellite in orbit 800 kilometres above the earth, using the sun as their source...
• UA Scientist & Team Discover Surface Features Cover Titan
  a smog similar to that found over large cities, but is much thicker. Smith's group used the Hubble Space Telescope's WideField/Planetary Camera 2 at near-infrared wavelengths (between .85 and 1.05 microns). Titan's haze is transparent enough in this wavelength range to allow mapping of surface...
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  for the Canadian Space Agency to launch a satellite to examine ozone depletion over Canada using an infrared spectrometer. As well, the project studying water on the sun -- for which Bernath gained notoriety in 1995 -- is continuing. Bernath sees the Killam Fellowship as continuing recognition...
• Back to the Moon
  during which they will explore a wider range of latitudes. Diviner, a nine-channel solar reflectance and infrared filter radiometer, will give scientists a clearer picture of temperatures over the entire surface of the Moon. It will use two telescopes that collect images on uncooled thermopile detectors...
• Hubble Views of Dust Disks and Rings Surrounding Young Stars Yield Clues
  three times more massive and 22 times brighter than our Sun. HD 141569 was first identified as a source that might have a disk in 1986 as a result of observations done with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) which showed that it had an excess of warm dust around it. Thermal radiation emitted...
• Disk around Star May Be Warped by Unseen Planet
  known star with a circumstellar disk of gas and dust that can be optically imaged. Despite the presence of dust around approximately one-third of the brightest nearby stars as deduced from NASA's Infrared Astronomy Satellite (IRAS) data ground-based telescope imaging has not detected other disks...

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