Scientific instruments A–Z

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• Texas Instruments Business AnalystTerminologyIllustration — Texas Instruments BA II Plus from 1991.
• Thermal Emission Imaging SystemTerminologyIllustration — The THEMIS instrument, before being mounted onto Mars Odyssey.
• TI-80TerminologyThe TI-80 is a graphing calculator introduced by Texas Instruments in 1995 to be used at a middle school level (grades 6 to 8). It offered advanced capabilities that had previously
• TI-81TerminologyThe TI-81 was the first graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments. It was designed in 1990 for use in algebra and pre-calculus courses.
• TI-83 Premium CETerminology
• TI-83 seriesTerminologyThe TI-83 series is a line of graphing calculators produced by Texas Instruments. Released in 1996, the series remained popular and widely used in schools until the introduction of
• TI-85TerminologyThe TI-85 is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments and is powered by a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, as used in the TI-73 and TI-81 to TI-86. Designed in 1992 as TI's second
• TI-89 seriesTerminologyThe TI-89 and the TI-89 Titanium are graphing calculators developed by Texas Instruments (TI). They are differentiated from most other TI graphing calculators by their computer alg
• TI-89 TitaniumTerminologyThe TI-89 and the TI-89 Titanium are graphing calculators developed by Texas Instruments (TI). They are differentiated from most other TI graphing calculators by their computer alg
• Tortoises with Triangle and TimeTerminologyTortoises with Triangle and Time is an outdoor bronze sculpture in Holland Park, Kensington, London, England, adjacent to Abbotsbury Road. The work is by the sculptor Wendy Taylor
• Traverse Gravimeter ExperimentTerminologyThe Lunar Traverse Gravimeter was a lunar science experiment, deployed by astronauts on the lunar surface in 1972 as part of Apollo 17. The goal of the experiment was to use relati
• Ultraviolet ExplorerTerminologyThe Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) is an upcoming wide-field ultraviolet space telescope from NASA scheduled to launch in 2030. UVEX will build upon previous ultraviolet space telesco
• Vacuum Tower TelescopeTerminologyThe Vacuum Tower Telescope (VTT) is an evacuated-optics solar telescope located at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is operated by the Kiepenheuer-Instit
• Very Long Baseline ArrayTerminologyThe Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system of ten radio telescopes which are operated remotely from their Array Operations Center located in Socorro, New Mexico, as a part of
• Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer SuiteTerminologyIllustration — Earth at night as imaged by VIIRS in 2016
• VISTATerminologyThe VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. It is ope
• VLT Survey TelescopeTerminologyThe VLT Survey Telescope (VST) is a telescope located in ESO's Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. It is housed in an enclosure immediately adjacent to the
• Westerlund telescopeTerminologyThe Westerlund telescope was inaugurated in 2004. And is named after Bengt Westerlund (1921–2008).
• Whitehurst & Son sundialTerminologyThe Whitehurst & Son sundial was produced in Derby in 1812 by the nephew of John Whitehurst. It is a fine example of a precision sundial telling local apparent time with a scale to
• Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2TerminologyIllustration — Brought back to Earth by the U.S. Space Shuttle, the WFPC is loaded for transport after display at JPL on its way to its final home at the National Air and Space M
• Wide-Field Infrared ExplorerTerminologyWide-field Infrared Explorer (WIRE, also Explorer 75 and SMEX-5) was a NASA satellite launched on 5 March 1999, on the Pegasus XL launch vehicle into polar orbit between above the
• wind tunnelTerminologyA wind tunnel is "an apparatus for producing a controlled stream of air for conducting aerodynamic experiments". The experiment is conducted in the test section of the wind tunnel
• Windows CalculatorTerminologyWindows Calculator is a software calculator developed by Microsoft and included in Windows. In its Windows 10 incarnation, it has five modes: standard, scientific, programmer, date
• X-ray astronomy satelliteTerminologyAn X-ray telescope (XRT) is a telescope that is designed to observe remote objects in the X-ray spectrum. X-rays are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, so instruments to detect X-
• YohkohTerminologyYohkoh ('Sunbeam'), known before launch as Solar-A, was a Solar observatory spacecraft of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan), in collaboration with space ag