October 2023
Slovenia’s footprint in space
... development across multiple industries. In the case of SkyLabs, one such technology is short-wave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy, which was applied to automated textile substrate identification and soil quality in smart farming. These new terrestrial...
May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
...and handling of small particles Embedding samples and ultramicrotomy Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) techniques Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy Tomography of planetary materials. The programme...
08 February 2016
Japan’s Astro-H mission due to launch on February 12, 2016
... CCD camera in the energy range of 0.5-12 keV, the Hard X-ray Imager (HXI) that performs sensitive imaging spectroscopy in the 5- 80 keV band and the non-imaging Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) that extends Astro...
06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... team ran simulations on two types of galaxies that were then targeted with COS, which uses ultraviolet spectroscopy to study the evolution of the universe: spiral galaxies that have a blueish colour and like the Milky...
18 July 2016
NASA unveils new Mars 2020 rover
... conditions and the dust environment and science instruments to provide high-resolution imaging and three types of spectroscopy for characterising rocks and soil from a distance. If that wasn’t enough then a ground-penetrating radar will...
02 August 2016
Astronomers detect large void in the centre of our Galaxy
... remains to be revealed, Matsunaga and team conclude ‘that detailed observations of these objects, such as high-resolution spectroscopy for radial velocities and metallicities, would provide a new path to a global picture of Galactic structure and...
