spectrometers

The team used spectrometers on the telescopes to spread the light into its component colors, as a prism separates white light into a rainbow.

Mars Methane Press Conference - NASA Watch 2009

That's true, but the lesson also is that as long as technology for instrument development (cameras, spectrometers) is making dramatic strides, a space telescope is quickly obsolete unless the focal plane package gets replaced.

Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch 2009

LCROSS 'Centaur impact will excavate up to 18 feet deep, and the instrument suite includes both visible and mass spectrometers.

LRO Launch Delayed Again - NASA Watch 2009

CRIRES works in the infrared band of the spectrum, but other spectrometers read radiation sources ranging from low-frequency radio and microwaves to visible “white” light and to higher-frequency ultraviolet and X-ray.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

At the far end was a square steel table, more than ten feet across, loaded with laboratory equipment: control panels and oscilloscopes and spectrometers and lasers, all linked by snaking black cables.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

The team used spectrometers on the telescopes to spread the light into its component colors, as a prism separates white light into a rainbow.

NASA Watch: January 2009 Archives 2009

These spacecraft not only have on-board cameras that take pictures of the visible light; but they also carry spectrometers that break light up into many wavelengths and collect spectra, specifically in the infrared.

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Rachel Mastrapa - Paving the Way for Astronomical Discoveries SETI Institute 2011

These spacecraft not only have on-board cameras that take pictures of the visible light; but they also carry spectrometers that break light up into many wavelengths and collect spectra, specifically in the infrared.

SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Rachel Mastrapa - Paving the Way for Astronomical Discoveries SETI Institute 2011

Also, we are hoping to be able to release the entire Swingby data (images and spectrometers) set to PDS by end of July

Amateur Astronomer Sights LCROSS - NASA Watch 2009

At the far end was a square steel table, more than ten feet across, loaded with laboratory equipment: control panels and oscilloscopes and spectrometers and lasers, all linked by snaking black cables.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011