Sentence examples for impact probe from inspiring English sources

Eleven years ago, on the same date, the Deep Impact probe successfully collided with the comet Tempel 1, an achievement that the astronomer Iwan Williams described as being "like a mosquito hitting a 747".

It is not, therefore, a coincidence that its Deep Impact probe will arrive at its target, comet Tempel 1, on July 4th.

The impact probe, carrying 317 pounds of copper ballast to help it make a significant crater, also includes an imaging system that will take close-up pictures of the comet until just before the collision.

Prof A'Hearn's team is still trying to locate the crater the projectile gouged out of the comet, because the cloud of dust produced on impact obscured cameras aboard the Deep Impact probe as it flew past.

An experimental prototype was developed which involves bouncing or hopping of the plunger based impact probe freely on the plain surface of an object under test.

For different choices of "orifice" diameter, the obstacle serves as a useful model of an impact probe (closed orifice) or scoop (closed, partially open, or fully open orifice) in a rapidly rotating strongly stratified gas (as in a gas centrifuge).

The US lander was meant to touchdown on Mars in December 1999 after releasing two "impact probes" named Scott and Amundsen.

Here, our labeled cDNA array platform is used to study, 1) compression of array data using known input ratios of Arabidopsis in vitro transcripts and arrayed serial dilutions of homologous probes; 2) how curing time of in-house poly-L-lysine coated slides impacts probe retention capacity; and 3) the retention characteristics of 13 commercially available surfaces.

The presence of short insertions and deletions (up to six nucleotides) located at the center of the 70-mer probes had a small impact on probe performance.

These 7669 probes were used as the control for subsequent analysis of the re-array data to minimize the impact of probe GC content on transcription calling.

Dynamic atomic force microscopy force measurements revealed minimal impact of probe velocity on normal interaction forces for the homopolymer brush.