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    The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument is an experiment mounted on the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover. It is a pulsed sealed-tube neutron...
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    21, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2012. "MSL Science Corner: Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)". NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on March 20, 2009...
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    + MER + MSL) CheMin (MSL) Chemistry and Camera complex (MSL) Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (MSL) Hazcam (MER + MSL + M20) MarsDial (MER + MSL + M20) Materials...
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    by the RAD while traveling from the Earth to Mars. Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN): A pulsed neutron source and detector for measuring hydrogen or ice...
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    ADRON-RM is a near copy of ADRO-EM on the stationary ExoMars 2020 surface platform and the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) neutron detector on board NASA's...
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  • attention network (DAN), a sensory orienting system in the brain Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN), a scientific instrument on board the Curiosity rover Dan...
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  • and Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) on Curiosity rover. This instrument's key components are four detectors containing Helium-3 for neutrons with energies...
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    Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector) instrument onboard Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA), DAN (short for Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons) instrument onboard...
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    resolution of various neutron detectors in use around Mars. Instruments like Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons on the Curiosity rover can only make measurements of about...
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    bits of atmosphere captured in some Martian meteorites found on Earth. On 19 August 2015, NASA scientists reported that the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN)...
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  • between 15 and 28 September 2015. NASA scientists report that the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument on the Curiosity rover detected an unusual hydrogen-rich...
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  • the early history of the Solar System. In 1947 he coined the word nuclide to describe an atom with given numbers of protons and neutrons in its nucleus....
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    Dark slope streak (category Geology of Mars)
    because they are one of the few geological phenomena that can be observed occurring on Mars in the present day. Dark slope streaks are albedo features. They...
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    more accurate measurements of its albedo, and Ceres's diameter was determined to within ten percent of its true value of 939 km (583 mi). Piazzi's proposed...
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    Barraclough, B. L.; R. C. Elphic; D. J. Lawrence (1998). "Fluxes of Fast and Epithermal Neutrons from Lunar Prospector: Evidence for Water Ice at the Lunar...
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    with a low albedo that is close to its star can appear brighter than a planet with a high albedo that is far from the star. In 2013, the color of an exoplanet...
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    Bizarre Form of Water May Exist All Over the Universe". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-05-13. Goncharov, Alexander F.; et al. (2005). "Dynamic Ionization...
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  • protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4 nucleus. They are generally produced in the process of alpha decay, but...
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    twice each Martian day. Phobos is one of the least reflective bodies in the Solar System, with an albedo of 0.071. Surface temperatures range from about...
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    M.; Pont, Frédéric; et al. (August 2013). "The Deep Blue Color of HD 189733b: Albedo Measurements with Hubble Space Telescope/Space Telescope Imaging...
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    the light curve included variations in both shape and albedo. Early estimates of the diameter of Vesta ranged from 383 kilometres (238 mi) in 1825, to...
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    gases and surface or atmospheric albedo. This proposal is known as the Gaia hypothesis.[citation needed] The state of water on a planet depends on ambient...
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    Robinson, T. D. (2013). "The Effect of Host Star Spectral Energy Distribution and Ice-Albedo Feedback on the Climate of Extrasolar Planets". Astrobiology...
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  • unimpeded and undetected. neutron star A type of compact star that is composed almost entirely of neutrons, which are a type of subatomic particle with...
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  • the actual energy absorbed is about 1.2*10^17 watts, from an average albedo of 0.3. "The Soviet Weapons Program – The Tsar Bomba". The Nuclear Weapon...
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  • most dynamic emerging fields of science, thus these values may change as new discoveries are made. Extremes on Earth Lists of exoplanets List of exoplanet...
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    results from the interaction of cosmic rays with solid material present in the Saturnian system (so called cosmic ray albedo neutron decay process—CRAND). The...
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    consistent with a statistical fluctuation or an Earth albedo transient on a 1-second timescale. A rebuttal of this follow-up analysis, however, pointed out that...
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    planet's albedo. It is more difficult with very hot planets as the glow of the planet can interfere when trying to calculate albedo. In theory, albedo can...
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    astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that uses the information contained in individual cosmic dust particles ranging from their dynamical state to its isotopic...
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