Search results for "Scientific instrument"
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Mauna Kea, Hawaii, as an Analog Site for Future Planetary Resource Exploration: Results from the 2010 ILSO-ISRU Field-Testing Campaign
2013
Within the framework of the International Lunar Surface Operation - In-Situ Resource Utilization Analogue Test held on January 27 - February 11, 2010 on the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, a number of scientific instrument teams collaborated to characterize the field site and test instrument capabilities outside laboratory environments. In this paper, we provide a geological setting for this new field-test site, a description of the instruments that were tested during the 2010 ILSO-ISRU field campaign, and a short discussion for each instrument about the validity and use of the results obtained during the test. These results will form a catalogue that may serve as reference for future test cam…
Big Data Processing in the ATLAS Experiment: Use Cases and Experience
2015
Abstract The physics goals of the next Large Hadron Collider run include high precision tests of the Standard Model and searches for new physics. These goals require detailed comparison of data with computational models simulating the expected data behavior. To highlight the role which modeling and simulation plays in future scientific discovery, we report on use cases and experience with a unified system built to process both real and simulated data of growing volume and variety.
Autonomous on-board data processing and instrument calibration software for the SO/PHI
2018
The extension of on-board data processing capabilities is an attractive option to reduce telemetry for scientific instruments on deep space missions. The challenges that this presents, however, require a comprehensive software system, which operates on the limited resources a data processing unit in space allows. We implemented such a system for the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) on-board the Solar Orbiter (SO) spacecraft. It ensures autonomous operation to handle long command-response times, easy changing of the processes after new lessons have been learned and meticulous book-keeping of all operations to ensure scientific accuracy. This contribution presents the requirements a…
Simuladores de lluvia y su aplicación a la Geomorfología : Estado de la cuestión
2013
During the last decades, Geomorphologists have developed a huge variety of scientific instruments as in the field as in the laboratory. Within the invented apparatus stand out the rainfall simulators, which have been used with different objectives since the 30s. His scientific benefit produced an increase in the variety of sizes, drop-formers, frames, rainfall characteristics, etc., for rainfall simulators based on drop former (tips) and on spray-nozzles systems. This paper reviews the history and the evolution of the rainfall simulators, and discusses the advantages and inconvenience of the simulated rainfall. We also point out the main uses: soil erosion rates measurements runoff, infiltr…
Athena Mars rover science investigation
2003
[1] Each Mars Exploration Rover carries an integrated suite of scientific instruments and tools called the Athena science payload. The primary objective of the Athena science investigation is to explore two sites on the Martian surface where water may once have been present, and to assess past environmental conditions at those sites and their suitability for life. The remote sensing portion of the payload uses a mast called the Pancam Mast Assembly (PMA) that provides pointing for two instruments: the Panoramic Camera (Pancam), and the Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES). Pancam provides high-resolution, color, stereo imaging, while Mini-TES provides spectral cubes at mid-inf…
Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory for the observation of early photons from gamma-ray bursts
2013
One of the least documented and understood aspects of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is the rise phase of the optical light curve. The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) is an effort to address this question through extraordinary opportunities presented by a series of space missions including a small spacecraft observatory. The UFFO is equipped with a fast-response Slewing Mirror Telescope (SMT) that uses a rapidly moving mirror or mirror array to redirect the optical beam rather than slewing the entire spacecraft to aim the optical instrument at the GRB position. The UFFO will probe the early optical rise of GRBs with sub-second response, for the first time, opening a completely new frontier in …
Scientific Instruments on Display
2016
Why and where are scientific instruments displayed? As this collective work convincingly demonstrates, the exhibition and representation of instruments depends on considerations that are shaped by ...
St. John Paul II’s Ideas of Dialogue between the Church and Science
2016
Wśród różnych obszarów tematycznych dialogu ze światem ważne miejsce w papieskim nauczaniu zajmuje dialog Kościoła z nauką. Dialog ten zasadniczo jest prowadzony, choć z różną intensywnością, od początku istnienia Kościoła, gdyż jest związany implicite z istotną dla myśli chrześcijańskiej relacją między rozumem a wiarą. Za pontyfikatu św. Jana Pawła II (1978-2005) problematyka dialogu Kościoła z nauką stała się ważnym elementem papieskiej troski i nauczania. O dużym zaangażowaniu papieża w dialog Kościoła z nauką świadczy wielość jego wypowiedzi, dotyczących różnych aspektów tegoż dialogu, wygłaszanych podczas różnej rangi spotkań z przedstawicielami nauki. Artykuł ma na celu syntetyczną pr…
Thermal Analysis of the Solar Orbiter PHI Electronics Unit
2020
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