...boon for the study of exoplanetary atmospheres, as it operates at infrared (IR) wavelengths; the region of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to identify molecules, especially planetary atmospheric ones such as methane, carbon monoxide...
...it emits light at wavelengthsaround 558 nanometers (nm), which corresponds to green light in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Whilst it might appear everywhere in our atmosphere as green-light emission, so far, scientists have yet...
... they move into the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum - they become redshifted. Lightwaves from an approaching...to shorten slightly and so move to the blue end of the spectrum, or become blueshifted - a phenomena known as Doppler shifting. Edwin...
... the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 which collects information in 11 narrow bands of wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum. False-colour imagery is used to provide additional scientific insights - the near infrared (band 5) in this...
... us with higher resolutions, real-time tracking, full-motion video and images that span much of the electromagnetic spectrum. Planetary Resources is taking its space resource technologies and turning its space telescopes to look at Earth. We will...
... from 1957 to 2016. A third concern relates to the complex issue of managing the finite available electromagnetic spectrum and the orbital slots allocated to geostationary satellite operators. This increasingly challenging task is managed by the...