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Spectrum tubes run in the $50-$80 range, about what you can buy a low pressure sodium lamp for these days. Add a suitable power supply and you’ve got a physically-based calibration source.
A spectrometer’s job is to split a pencil-sized beam of starlight into a rainbow of constituent colors and then measure very accurately the positions of dark “absorption lines” in the rainbow. The new ...
He and his Los Alamos colleagues recently compared their neutron spectrometer readings as Odyssey flew over the north pole during early spring, when the dry-ice ground cover was thickest, ...
Nov. 13, 2009 — -- After a month of analysis -- and some doubt -- NASA today announced that its LCROSS lunar-impact probe mission found "significant quantities" of water ice in the floor of a ...
The compact infrared spectrometer developed by researchers at ETH Zurich -- described this week in the journal Nature Photonics-- promises to change that.. The new chip, measuring two centimeters ...
The excitement is palpable. Second Glance. NASA made a huge splash in September when it announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted potential sign of life on an exoplanet dubbed K2 ...
Axalta's new, Wi-Fi enabled Acquire Quantum EFX spectrophotometer is light, fast, and highly accurate - capable of reading metallic, pearl, effect colors, and more.
Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor since 2013, Ry's beats ...
The new spectrometer will bring within reach one of astronomy’s longest-held goals: the discovery of an Earth-sized planet in another solar system. A spectrometer’s job is to split a pencil-sized beam ...