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One week from today, the MESSENGER spacecraft will fly by Mercury for the second time. As part of the final preparations for this encounter, the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer (GRS) was placed in an “anneal ...

Calibration is a key moment in the life of a space telescope before launch. Those who have designed and built the instrument and the future users must precisely measure its performance before it ...

"GRETINA is one of the first systems to use gamma-ray energy tracking to trace the path of gamma rays emitted from nuclear reactions through crystals, resulting in unprecedented energy resolution and ...

Marine gamma-ray spectrometry represents a pivotal methodological advancement for assessing radiological activity in marine environments. Recent developments in detector technology – including sodium ...

A small research satellite designed to study the violent processes behind the creation and destruction of chemical elements will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2027, NASA announced Tuesday. The ...

THE scintillation spectrometer 1 using a sodium iodide crystal (thallium-activated) identifies the incident gamma-ray energy with the response to the photo-electric, Compton and (when energetically ...

Gamma radiation detectors commonly used at nuclear power plants could be used to help archaeologists scan underground for new finds and could also be applied to discovering dinosaur bones, a new study ...

HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a statement released by the University of Reading, a gamma-ray spectrometer, a device normally used to identify radioactive contamination at nuclear sites, was tested ...

If you want to work with radioactive material, a cheap Geiger counter isn’t really what you want. According to [Project 326], you need a gamma ray spectrometer. The video below reviews the Radiacode ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is something special among telescopes. It's not built for better angular resolution and increased resolving power like the European Extremely Large Telescope or the ...