http://www.tempsensornews.com TempSensorNEWS Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:44:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/nasa-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-delivers-treasure-trove-of-data/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/nasa-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-delivers-treasure-trove-of-data/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:26:34 +0000 Editor http://www.tempsensornews.com/?p=6651 Includes maps of visual & infrared brightness, temperature and more… WASHINGTON DC, USA — NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission’s exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. With this fifth release of data, striking new images and [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/nasa-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-delivers-treasure-trove-of-data/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/6357/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/6357/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:00:07 +0000 Editor http://www.tempsensornews.com/?p=6357 For The Success of the SOFIA First Light Flight This infrared image of the heart of the Orion star-formation complex was taken from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) using the FORCAST mid-infrared camera, by principal investigator Terry Herter of Cornell University.(Image Credit: NASA/SOFIA/USRA/FORCAST Team) Mountain View CA, USA –/PR-USA/– The Universities Space Research [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/6357/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/non-contact-sensors/esa%e2%80%99s-mercury-mapper-feels-the-heat/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/non-contact-sensors/esa%e2%80%99s-mercury-mapper-feels-the-heat/#comments Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:30:59 +0000 Editor http://www.tempsensornews.com/?p=6347 BepiColombo’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the Large Space Simulator ESA –  Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA’s Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury’s hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft. [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/non-contact-sensors/esa%e2%80%99s-mercury-mapper-feels-the-heat/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/the-coldest-objects-in-the-nearby-universe/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/the-coldest-objects-in-the-nearby-universe/#comments Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:52:29 +0000 Editor http://www.tempsensornews.com/?p=6349 ESA’s Planck spacecraft measures them Paris, France –  With its power to detect cosmic material at unprecedentedly low temperatures, the Planck Spacecraft has completed the first unbiased, all-sky survey of compact cold and dusty objects in the Milky Way and, at the same time, the first all-sky survey of cool dust in other galaxies. These [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/thermal_imaging/the-coldest-objects-in-the-nearby-universe/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/Research/precision-measurement-systems-for-the-large-synoptic-survey-telescope/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/Research/precision-measurement-systems-for-the-large-synoptic-survey-telescope/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:15:49 +0000 Editor http://www.tempsensornews.com/?p=1983 To measure small temperature variations on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile {Image credit: LSST Corporation} Gainesville FL, USA — GEC Instruments has been awarded a contract from LSST Corporation in Tucson, Arizona, to build four ultra high accuracy, high resolution temperature measurement instruments, each with 94 thermocouple input channels, accompanied by software for [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/Research/precision-measurement-systems-for-the-large-synoptic-survey-telescope/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/global-carbon-measurement-system/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/global-carbon-measurement-system/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Editor International Post Corporation Leads Industry Response to Carbon Emissions (CSRwire) BELGIUM, – June 2, 2008 – The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoring system providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal industry. The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria, [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/global-carbon-measurement-system/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/seismologists-take-deep-earth-temperatures/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/seismologists-take-deep-earth-temperatures/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Editor Univ. of California scientists measure heat flow from Earth’s molten core into the lower mantle {Image by Edward Garnero} Santa Cruz CA, USA — For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/seismologists-take-deep-earth-temperatures/feed/ 0 http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/dark-vortex-over-south-pole-of-venus/ http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/dark-vortex-over-south-pole-of-venus/#comments Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Editor Credits: ESA/INAF-IASF, Rome, Italy, and Observatoire de Paris, France This false-colour composite, built with images taken by the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) onboard Venus Express, the first-ever images of the hothouse planet’s south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres. . ESA’s Venus Express has showed surprisingly clear structures and unexpected [...]]]> http://www.tempsensornews.com/astro/dark-vortex-over-south-pole-of-venus/feed/ 0