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...
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...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
..., from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. “We learn things about these galaxies that is only possible with spectroscopy, such as chemical content and internal motions — not galaxy by galaxy but all at once for all the...
