August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
... Ritchie-Chrétien reflector at the Elginfield Observatory at the University of Western Ontario by taking large dispersion spectroscopy of hundreds of classification stars and white dwarf suspects. This opportunity occurred several years before glass...
August 2018
Monitoring marine litter by satellite
...item. Finally, among the LIDAR techniques, particularly promising techniques could be based on Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy, although the latter operates with a signal relatively too weak to be realistically applicable for satellite monitoring...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... Imaging Spectrometer), MORE (Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment), PHEBUS (Probing of Hermean Exosphere by Ultraviolet Spectroscopy), SIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory), and SIXS (Solar Intensity...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
... create new markets, resulting in job creation and economic growth.Mirico found that Laser Dispersion Spectroscopy (LDS), a laser gas-sensing technology originally designed to measure atmospheric constituents in space, could be deployed to accurately...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... of life (4.1 billion years ago) is so close to the physical formation of the planet (4.5 billion years ago). Furthermore, spectroscopy of interstellar stardust samples showed very interesting results. The spectrum received was very similar to the...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
... pass in front of their parent star as seen from Earth. A recent development included on NIRSpec is Integral Field Spectroscopy, where each pixel in an image contains a spectrum. This extraordinary tool allows astronomers to determine the composition...
