The rover will have the largest array of scientific instruments to be taken to Mars.
Its three scientific instruments would probe cosmic rays and clouds to test current models of climate change.
Scientific instruments would be supplied by Imperial College London, Birmingham University and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
Andrews and the Institute of Scientific Instruments have developed a working (albeit quite miniature) tractor beam themselves.
He teaches at Cornell University, and like a lot of planetary astronomers, he dreamed of sending scientific instruments to Mars.
In all, the plutonium-powered, six-wheeled Curiosity carries 10 scientific instruments, including an analytical laboratory, to process mineral and sediment samples.
It is packed with scientific instruments such as a miniaturised camera, an infra-red spectrometer and sensors to measure solar wind and other electrical currents.
His beguiling collection of paintings, sculptures and scientific instruments will be displayed in the chambers and galleries that he had built for the purpose.
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Among what arithmeticians refer to as the very small numbers (one, two, three, four, five, etc.), number inflation is detectable only with fine scientific instruments.
Moreover, the Curiosity rover, which is equipped with 11 scientific instruments to probe for conditions suitable for life, isn't designed to detect the signs of microbial activity or any traces of fossilized bacteria.
Provenance and rarity also explain Sotheby's high estimates for the ten scientific instruments in the sale, such as a 21-inch brass telescope made circa 1800 by Jesse Ramsden , instrument-maker to King George III.
Now a collection of the inventor's personal belongings, including his library of scientific books, a cluster of scientific instruments and a letter documenting the teakettle incident are all coming up for sale at Sotheby's London on March 20.
While the aircraft has flown before, this was the first flight for it after being loaded up with eleven different scientific instruments, which will be used to examine trace gases, aerosols, and dynamics of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
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As scientific instruments go, they're highly imperfect: they ignore distinctions of meaning, their counts can be inaccurate, and they're not necessarily representative of the language that people use when they're kicking around political issues with their co-workers or at the breakfast table.
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But the instruments confer a stamp of scientific precision on a judgment that psychologists have proved ill-equipped to make.
Samples inside the package must first be "cooked" in an oven, then analyzed using instruments commonly found on the shelf of respectable scientific laboratories on Earth.
In contrast, the early scientific and technological achievements of Asia were not wedded to great enterprises or great purposes but remained largely clever instruments to be admired.
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