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Magnetometer meaning
An instrument used to measure the intensity and direction of a magnetic field, especially at points on the Earth's surface; sometimes used as metal detector.
Synonyms of Magnetometer
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Magnetometer (MAG) The magnetometer (MAG) used two sets of three sensors.
Two different magnetometers were mounted: a vector helium magnetometer and a fluxgate magnetometer.
The science instruments – a multispectral imager, magnetometer, and gamma-ray, and neutron spectrometer – that will investigate the asteroid are poised for action.
The standard smartphone with features like two cameras, three microphones, an infrared sensor, a proximity sensor, a magnetometer, multiple GPS antennas, Wi-Fi, and 4G is rather traumatizing to the environmentally conscious mind.
A magnetometer survey is a very precise measurement that uses minute changes in electromagnetic fields to find evidence of human activity buried beneath the earth.
A Phase 2 program commenced in early October and consisted of additional property mapping and sampling, a reconnaissance magnetometer (“MAG”) survey and channel sampling at a portion of Spodumene Mountain.
Philae’s magnetometer boom, ROMAP, also helped confirm the location of second touchdown.
The craft features a seismometer for detecting Mars' quakes; sensors for gauging wind and air pressure; a magnetometer for measuring the planet's magnetic forces; and a probe designed to take the planet's temperature.
There is also an array of sensors that include an accelerometer, ambient light, gyroscope, fingerprint reader, magnetometer, and proximity sensor.
The smartphone includes accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer, a proximity sensor and a fingerprint sensor at the back.
A magnetometer determines the orientation of the generated field, which is interpolated to determine the axis of rotation.
Measurements using Galileo's solid state imager, magnetometer and NIMS instrument were taken.
One set was located at the end of the magnetometer boom and, in that position, was about 11 m from the spin axis of the spacecraft.
On November 29, 2006, a telemetered command to Voyager 2 was incorrectly decoded by its on-board computer—in a random error—as a command to turn on the electrical heaters of the spacecraft's magnetometer.
The field that the magnetometer observed was the super-position of a nearly constant spacecraft field and the interplanetary field.
The magnetometer could detect changes of about 4 γ on any of the axes, but no trends above 10 γ were detected near Venus, nor were fluctuations seen like those that appear at Earth's magnetospheric termination.