• The increase of cross section area at the chamber reduces the speed of the dust-filled airstream and heavier particles settle out. (wikipedia.org)
  • Baffle chambers are used as precleaners Centrifugal collectors use cyclonic action to separate dust particles from the gas stream. (wikipedia.org)
  • The centrifugal force created by the circular flow throws the dust particles toward the wall of the cyclone. (wikipedia.org)
  • The main vortex spirals downward and carries most of the coarser dust particles. (wikipedia.org)
  • The inner vortex, created near the bottom of the cyclone, spirals upward and carries finer dust particles. (wikipedia.org)
  • [1] [2] Most cosmic dust particles measure between a few molecules and 0.1 mm (100 μm ), such as micrometeoroids . (wikipedia.org)
  • When infrared astronomy began, the dust particles were observed to be significant and vital components of astrophysical processes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cosmic dust can be detected by remote sensing methods that utilize the radiative properties of cosmic dust particles, c.f. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is some evidence that the Moon has a tenuous layer of moving dust particles constantly leaping up from and falling back to the Moon's surface, giving rise to a "dust atmosphere" that looks static but is composed of dust particles in constant motion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Positive charges build up until the tiniest particles of lunar dust (measuring 1 micrometre and smaller) are repelled from the surface and lofted anywhere from metres to kilometres high, with the smallest particles reaching the highest altitudes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dust particles will typically appear as amorphous discolorations as large as a pea or as small as pinhead. (boloji.com)
  • To begin with, it's very difficult to remove all particles of dust from the sensor, so it's best to resist the urge to be a perfectionist when it comes to total dust removal. (boloji.com)
  • And finally, many dust particles that show up readily at f/22 are not visible at all on images taken at more commonly-used apertures, so don't worry about dust particles that don't actually affect your pictures. (boloji.com)
  • Climate controls the supply of erodible materials, the erosive force of surface winds and the transport route and residence time of dust particles in the air," said Xi. (mtu.edu)
  • The researchers reasoned that the downrange plume and the conical impact ejecta produced the dust particles, which sunlight pushed away from the asteroid. (astronomy.com)
  • However, this hypothesis was based so far on a limited knowledge of the actual size properties of the dust particles. (naturalsciences.be)
  • The Human Health Risk Assessment of the Capstone Depleted Uranium Aerosols study determined that there would be little or no impact on the health of those breathing DU dust particles inside a tank hit by DU projectiles. (health.mil)
  • Swallowed particles are generally passed through the gastrointestinal tract as with the oral route of exposure. (health.mil)
  • We're thrilled Cassini could make this detection, given that our instrument was designed primarily to measure dust from within the Saturn system, as well as all the other demands on the spacecraft," said Marcia Burton, a Cassini fields and particles scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and a co-author of the paper. (designworldonline.com)
  • Particles of any solid substance, generally under 30 microns in size, often noted as PM30. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, it was later concluded that cancer in those workers was due to cigarette smoking and breathing silica dust. (cdc.gov)
  • The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) estimated in 2003 that over 2 million workers were potentially exposed to crystalline silica dust in general industry, construction and maritime industries. (cdc.gov)
  • Breathing silica dust is also associated with tuberculosis, lung cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). (cdc.gov)
  • Exposure to silica dust may also cause various autoimmune diseases and chronic renal (kidney) disease. (cdc.gov)
  • People only get silicosis from inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust into their lungs. (cdc.gov)
  • Dust mites are microscopic animals that feed on human skin scales. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Almost everyone is exposed to dust mites, but not everyone is sensitive to them. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Most significantly, children allergic to dust mites are five times more likely to develop asthma. (nationaljewish.org)
  • If droppings of dust mites are inhaled or come in contact with the skin, they may cause allergic symptoms and aggravate asthma and/or eczema. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Dust allergy actually is an allergy to the dust inside the home and the dust inside the home actually will contain any of the what we call perennial allergens, but then importantly dust mites are also included in dust. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Dust mites love bedding so they love being in the bedroom, carpets, rugs, drapery and so it's very important to keep tabs on where the dust mites might be and try to prevent them because they can cause problems all year round in a place where we spend a lot of time which is our bedroom. (nationaljewish.org)
  • We also have intradermal testing for more subtle allergy where a little bit of the extract will be actually placed under the skin and then there's specific IGE testing which is a blood test looking for IGE which is the allergic antibody and specific for dust mites. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Treatment for dust mite allergy generally involves limiting exposure to dust mites. (nationaljewish.org)
  • So dust mites tend to love bedding and upholstered furniture, rugs and carpeting so trying to limit those in the home and trying to change to hardwood floor if at all possible, leather furniture. (nationaljewish.org)
  • In terms of the mattresses and pillows where dust mites like to live we generally recommend wrapping them all the way around with a finely woven cover on the mattress and on the pillow and make sure that that cover zips up and then really tries to keep the dust mites away from the individual's face. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Dust mites live on human skin scales. (nationaljewish.org)
  • People slough off dead skin cells all the time, and, in the process, dust mites infiltrate the soft surfaces of bedding, pillows, sofas and carpets. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Dust-proof encasings have a layer of material that holds the dust mites inside. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Since humidity is necessary for dust mites to reproduce, it is useful to know your home's moisture level. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Wash throw rugs every week in hot water to kill dust mites and other allergy triggers. (webmd.com)
  • Five main types of industrial dust collectors are: Inertial separators Fabric filters Wet scrubbers Unit collector Electrostatic precipitators Inertial separators separate dust from gas streams using a combination of forces, such as centrifugal, gravitational, and inertial. (wikipedia.org)
  • Use a microfiber or electrostatic cloth for dusting. (webmd.com)
  • intergalactic dust , interstellar dust, interplanetary dust (as in the zodiacal cloud ), and circumplanetary dust (as in a planetary ring ). (wikipedia.org)
  • Solar System dust includes comet dust , planetary dust (like from Mars), [3] asteroidal dust , dust from the Kuiper belt , and interstellar dust passing through the Solar System. (wikipedia.org)
  • Therefore, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health* (NIOSH) recommends limiting wood dust exposures to prevent these health problems. (cdc.gov)
  • NIOSH researchers found that the wood dust generated by orbital hand sanders is often poorly controlled. (cdc.gov)
  • NIOSH has established partnerships with several manufacturers, mining companies, and MSHA to demonstrate that older equipment cabs can be refurbished to provide effective dust protection. (cdc.gov)
  • NIOSH, working in cooperation with a mineral-processing corporation, has developed a quick and effective method for cleaning dust-laden work clothing. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition there is dust mite allergen immunotherapy so allergy shots either traditional shots which can be mixed with the other allergens and now there's a newly approved sublingual immunotherapy as well so a tablet for dust mite allergy. (nationaljewish.org)
  • Most good vacuums suck up more dust, dirt, and allergens than they spit out. (webmd.com)
  • Newer ones that cost more generally do a better job of sucking up allergens. (webmd.com)
  • Um, generally, your camera also does a pretty good job off getting the white exposure. (skillshare.com)
  • Studies on thorium workers have shown that breathing dust containing thorium (and other substances) may damage the lung after years of exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition to inhalation, DU exposure may also occur through ingestion of DU dust, contamination of wounds with DU dust, or from embedded DU munitions or armor fragments in the body. (health.mil)
  • Mostly, exposure to the toxic metal comes from breathing in lead paint chips or dust. (newsreview.com)
  • At current U.S. levels of exposure, chronic inhalation generally takes a decade or longer to cause disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Mobile equipment operators at surface mining operations generally have the highest exposure to airborne respirable silica/quartz dust. (cdc.gov)
  • Dust-contaminated work clothing can cause up to a tenfold increase in a worker's respirable dust exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • To evaluate exposure to indoor pollutants such as pesticides, researchers collect and analyze dust samples from inside people's homes and test them for pesticide residue. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Dust collectors may be of single unit construction, or a collection of devices used to separate particulate matter from the process air. (wikipedia.org)
  • For human settlements located downwind, dust aerosol is a major safety and health hazard, with elevated concentrations of particulate matter and dust-borne pathogens," said Xi. (mtu.edu)
  • Light rain (total 2.8mm) at first, then becoming colder with a dusting of snow on Fri morning. (weather-forecast.com)
  • In the US, warmer, wet southern climates generally have more NTM isolates than do colder, drier northern climates. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Atmospheric dust content is generally higher in the spring and summer. (icr.org)
  • However, Kok and his colleagues also underscore that uncertainties remain in the calculations they used to determine the climate effects of atmospheric dust. (nasa.gov)
  • Greenland ice-core calcium data show two periods, preceding the interstadials, of anomalously high atmospheric dust loading, the origin of which is not well understood. (lu.se)
  • The most common types of centrifugal, or inertial, collectors in use today are: Single-cyclone separators create a dual vortex to separate coarse from fine dust. (wikipedia.org)
  • One study found that some vacuum cleaners throw fine dust and germs back into the air, where they can set off allergies and spread infections. (webmd.com)
  • Fine dust from pulverized rock generated by the Chicxulub impact likely played a dominant role in global climate cooling and the disruption of photosynthesis following the event. (naturalsciences.be)
  • The fine dust may have lingered in the atmosphere up to 15 years after the impact, causing a global cooling of the Earth's surface of up to 15 degrees Celsius. (naturalsciences.be)
  • Cosmic dust - also called extraterrestrial dust , space dust , or star dust - is dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth . (wikipedia.org)
  • Thousands of tons of cosmic dust are estimated to reach Earth's surface every year, [4] with most grains having a mass between 10 −16 kg (0.1 pg) and 10 −4 kg (0.1 g). [4] The density of the dust cloud through which the Earth is traveling is approximately 10 −6 dust grains/m 3 . (wikipedia.org)
  • Cosmic dust contains some complex organic compounds (amorphous organic solids with a mixed aromatic - aliphatic structure) that could be created naturally, and rapidly, by stars . (wikipedia.org)
  • Cosmic dust was once solely an annoyance to astronomers, as it obscures objects they wished to observe. (wikipedia.org)
  • [14] For example, cosmic dust can drive the mass loss when a star is nearing the end of its life , play a part in the early stages of star formation , and form planets . (wikipedia.org)
  • Zodiacal light caused by cosmic dust. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cosmic dust of the Andromeda Galaxy as revealed in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope . (wikipedia.org)
  • A wide range of methods is available to study cosmic dust. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cosmic dust can also be detected directly ('in-situ') using a variety of collection methods and from a variety of collection locations. (wikipedia.org)
  • The spacecraft has also sampled millions of ice-rich dust grains with its cosmic dust analyzer instrument. (designworldonline.com)
  • Cosmic dust is produced when stars die, but with the vast range of types of stars in the universe, we naturally expected to encounter a huge range of dust types over the long period of our study," said Frank Postberg of the University of Heidelberg, a co-author of the paper and co-investigator of Cassini's dust analyzer. (designworldonline.com)
  • Airborne dust aerosols impact the Earth in a myriad of ways," he explained. (mtu.edu)
  • When the lakebed is dry-as has been the case for long stretches in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2018, 2021, and 2022-the volume of airborne dust increases by 40 percent , according to a team of researchers based in Iran. (nasa.gov)
  • A research team led by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists announced in January 2023 that airborne dust has likely increased by 55 percent on a global scale since pre-industrial times, largely due to increases in dust storms in Asia and North Africa. (nasa.gov)
  • Airborne dust can affect Earth's climate-generally causing cooling-by scattering sunlight and altering certain types of clouds. (nasa.gov)
  • The UCLA-led team calculated that the increase in airborne dust has likely masked roughly 8 percent of the warming caused by greenhouse gases since the preindustrial era-something that some current global climate models and projections do not account for. (nasa.gov)
  • 8-10 Humans are predominately infected through inhalation of airborne dust or droplets containing C. burnetii bacterium. (who.int)
  • in the clouds of the diffuse interstellar medium , in molecular clouds , in the circumstellar dust of young stellar objects , and in planetary systems such as the Solar System , where astronomers consider dust as in its most recycled state. (wikipedia.org)
  • The astronomers accumulate observational 'snapshots' of dust at different stages of its life and, over time, form a more complete movie of the Universe's complicated recycling steps. (wikipedia.org)
  • A research team of planetary scientists and astronomers has explained the formation of peculiar triple dust tails from the asteroid 596 Scheila. (astronomy.com)
  • Paleoclimate model simulations show the rapid dust transport across the planet, indicating that the Paleogene world was encircled by the silicate dust ejecta within a few days following the Chicxulub impact event. (naturalsciences.be)
  • Dust aerosol is not all bad, noted Xi. (mtu.edu)
  • 2023) Mineral dust aerosol impacts on global climate and climate change . (nasa.gov)
  • Many occupations and industries create quartz-containing dust through activities like drilling, tunneling, or quarrying, or by cutting, breaking or crushing materials that contain quartz. (cdc.gov)
  • Workers exposed to wood dusts have experienced a variety of adverse health effects such as eye and skin irritation, allergy, reduced lung function, asthma, and nasal cancer. (cdc.gov)
  • Xin Xi , an assistant professor in the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences at Michigan Tech, uses observations and models to study the sources, transformation and transport of dust to assess its impact on climate and air quality. (mtu.edu)
  • Before satellite remote sensing became available, surface weather observations - specifically the dust weather visual report and horizontal visibility - were a primary source of information for monitoring wind erosion and dust activity around the world," he said. (mtu.edu)
  • Soon after reports of Scheila's unusual brightness, the current research team used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope, the 1.05-meter Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory Murikabushi Telescope, and the University of Hawaii 2.2-meter Telescope to make optical observations of these mysterious dust tails over a three-month period. (astronomy.com)
  • Future research should focus on "constraining dust optical properties through in situ and remote sensing observations," they noted in their study . (nasa.gov)
  • Recent GBT and ATCA observations have identified the telltale radio signal of diamond dust around 3 such stars, suggesting they are a source of the so-called anomalous microwave emission. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • You may think you're getting rid of the dust, dirt, and pet dander that trigger your allergies, but sometimes you may be stirring them up instead. (webmd.com)
  • 2022) Influence of Hamoun Lakes' dry conditions on dust emission and radiative forcing over Sistan plain, Iran . (nasa.gov)
  • Dust collectors are used in many processes to either recover valuable granular solid or powder from process streams, or to remove granular solid pollutants from exhaust gases prior to venting to the atmosphere. (wikipedia.org)
  • As wind shapes the surface of the Earth, it pulls dust from dry, exposed land surfaces into the atmosphere. (mtu.edu)
  • This is just one dust storm in one location, but the cumulative effect of the world's dust storms can have significant effects on Earth's atmosphere. (nasa.gov)
  • Previous research has suggested that sulfur released during the impact and soot from post-impact wildfires constituted the main drivers of an impact winter, and not the ejection of silicate dust into the atmosphere. (naturalsciences.be)
  • Cem Berk Senel (ROB), the lead author, describes: 'The new paleoclimate simulations show that such a plume of micrometric silicate dust could have remained in the atmosphere for up to 15 years after the event , contributing to global cooling of the Earth's surface by as much as 15 °C in the initial aftermath of the impact. (naturalsciences.be)
  • That was the case on January 12, 2023, when the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite captured this image of dust streaming from the dry lake bed. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2022, June 1) 5 Things to Know About NASA's New Mineral Dust Detector . (nasa.gov)
  • The bottom half of the GISP2 ice core was dated by counting presumed seasonal dust "peaks" within the ice. (icr.org)
  • 4 Therefore, the many winter storms in Greenland during the post-Flood Ice Age could have resulted in thousands of non-annual dust peaks. (icr.org)
  • Therefore, the 100,000 dust peaks counted by secular scientists in the bottom half of the core likely resulted from a "perfect storm" of highly variable dust content and old-earth assumptions. (icr.org)
  • At approximately the same time as the Greenland dust peaks, the Chinese Hulu Cave speleothems exhibit a climatic signal suggested to be a response to Heinrich Event 2, a period of enhanced ice-rafted debris deposition in the North Atlantic. (lu.se)
  • On the other hand, he added, dust deposited on the surface of snow can decrease its ability to reflect sunlight, impacting Earth's surface energy balance and hydrology. (mtu.edu)
  • The Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission is collecting data on the color and composition of Earth's surface in major dust-producing regions. (nasa.gov)
  • Orbital hand sanders have been found to create significant amounts of wood dust. (cdc.gov)
  • However, even the sanders having dust removal do not effectively control the wood dust generated by the sanding operation. (cdc.gov)
  • Laboratory tests show that the plenum reduces wood dust emissions by approximately 90 percent. (cdc.gov)
  • these include isocyanates (e.g. as used by car paint sprayers), flour and grain dust, wood dust, solder fumes and laboratory animals. (who.int)
  • According to scientific estimates, global annual dust emissions can range from 1 to 5 billion tons, shifting each year according to climate. (mtu.edu)
  • To address this problem, researchers designed and tested a new control system for these hand sanders that significantly reduced dust emissions. (cdc.gov)
  • The guy at the local PC hardware store told me it's better to use a small hand-held leaf blower to blow dust out of your PC case than a hand-held vacuum cleaner. (superuser.com)
  • The system uses a compressed air nozzle manifold to blow dust and product from the clothing in an enclosed booth. (cdc.gov)
  • Some of the independent risk factors for asthma in older adults include house dust mite sensitization and maternal smoking. (medscape.com)
  • The prevalence of asthma and allergic sensitization was 4 and 6 times lower in the Amish population, with higher median endotoxin levels in house dust. (medscape.com)
  • In my current work at NCI, we are looking at pesticide levels adsorbed in house dust in farming communities. (medlineplus.gov)
  • It is distinguished from air purifiers, which use disposable filters to remove dust. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1921, he patented three filter designs that he had pioneered to remove dust from air. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are several methods to remove dust from your DSLR's sensor. (boloji.com)
  • The next line of defence is to expose your camera's sensitive sensor so that you can use the air blower to remove dust from it more directly. (boloji.com)
  • [1] Lunar dust generally connotes even finer materials than lunar soil . (wikipedia.org)
  • physics ( solid-state , electromagnetic theory , surface physics, statistical physics , thermal physics ), fractal mathematics , surface chemistry on dust grains, meteoritics , as well as every branch of astronomy and astrophysics . (wikipedia.org)
  • Indeed, on average, we have captured a few of these dust grains per year, travelling at high speed and on a specific path quite different from that of the usual icy grains we collect around Saturn. (designworldonline.com)
  • The tiny dust grains were speeding through the Saturn system at over 45,000 mph (72,000 kilometers per hour), fast enough to avoid being trapped inside the solar system by the gravity of the sun and its planets. (designworldonline.com)
  • The authors speculate on how this processing of dust might take place: Dust in a star-forming region could be destroyed and recondense multiple times as shock waves from dying stars passed through, resulting in grains like the ones Cassini observed streaming into our solar system. (designworldonline.com)
  • Slightly changing any of these parameters can give significantly different dust dynamical behavior. (wikipedia.org)
  • Importantly, unlike Ulysses and Galileo, Cassini was able to analyze the composition of the dust for the first time, showing it to be made of a very specific mixture of minerals, not ice. (designworldonline.com)
  • Dr. Xie compares pesticide measurements from these dust samples to the farmers' responses to a questionnaire. (medlineplus.gov)
  • But research also shows that the dust in their houses has higher pesticide levels than the dust in non-farming houses. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The snow forecast for St. Christoph is: A dusting of new snow. (snow-forecast.com)
  • Generally, a dusting up to 1" is forecast for the metro. (kare11.com)
  • Generally speaking, the contamination is the result of corroded pipes, solder, fittings and fixtures. (newsreview.com)
  • We aim to study the fraction of stellar radiation absorbed by dust, f abs , in 814 galaxies of different morphological types. (aanda.org)
  • A common refrain in the literature states that dust, despite representing only a tiny fraction of the total baryonic content of galaxies, has a profound effect on their physics and appearance. (aanda.org)
  • On digital photographs viewed on your computer screen, dust will typically be most apparent in bright areas of uniform color, such as the sky. (boloji.com)
  • Scientists need at least four or five measurements to identify a dust peak, but how far apart should those measurements be made? (icr.org)
  • DSLR users will always need to take care to ensure that large amounts of dust do not enter the lens mounts of their cameras, but manual sensor cleaning may be a thing of the past a few years from now. (boloji.com)
  • Dust samples are collected from vacuum cleaners and analyzed by a laboratory. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Although asteroids generally look like points when observed from Earth, Scheila looked like a comet. (astronomy.com)
  • However, dust levels are always changing due to ever-varying meteorological conditions, and secular glaciologists have acknowledged that storms, particularly violent ones, could result in higher dust levels within the ice cores. (icr.org)
  • The change has reduced vegetation cover and exposed silt and dust that has turned the area into a major source of dust storms . (nasa.gov)
  • While dust storms are most common in the summer, they happen year-round as long as the lake is dry and the winds are strong. (nasa.gov)
  • Miri, A. (2021) An investigation into climatic and terrestrial drivers of dust storms in the Sistan region of Iran in the early twenty-first century . (nasa.gov)
  • Designed to handle high-volume dust loads, a dust collector system consists of a blower, dust filter, a filter-cleaning system, and a dust receptacle or dust removal system. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the air blower just doesn't remove enough dust to satisfy you, there are other, more serious measures you can take, but first some words of caution. (boloji.com)
  • Second, no dust removal method other than using the air blower is officially sanctioned by camera makers, which universally recommend that you send your camera in to the manufacturer's nearest service centre for maintenance. (boloji.com)
  • Based on these images of the linear structure, the scientists determined a dust emission date of December 3, 2010 (plus or minus one day). (astronomy.com)
  • To evaluate the roles of sulfur, soot, and silicate dust on the post-impact climate, Cem Berk Senel, Orkun Temel, and Özgür Karatekin, scientists from the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), developed a new paleoclimate model, specialized to simulate the climate and biotic response following the Chicxulub impact. (naturalsciences.be)
  • Dust mite allergy can cause symptoms of the nose, the eyes and particularly of the lungs in somebody who has allergic asthma. (nationaljewish.org)
  • So your typical allergy symptoms, nasal itchiness, runny nose, post nasal drip, congestion and then again importantly a flare of somebody's asthma if they're dust mite allergic. (nationaljewish.org)
  • So testing for dust mite allergy involves a skin prick testing which is putting a drop of extract on the skin and then poking through it. (nationaljewish.org)
  • The person with a dust mite allergy should not vacuum or be in a room while it is being vacuumed. (nationaljewish.org)
  • In the climatic signal of Antarctic ice cores, moreover, a relative warming occurs between 23 and 24.5kyrb2k that is generally interpreted as a. (lu.se)
  • In the climatic signal of Antarctic ice cores, moreover, a relative warming occurs between 23 and 24.5kyrb2k that is generally interpreted as a counterpart to a cool climate phase in the Northern Hemisphere. (lu.se)
  • The dust was traced back to the local interstellar cloud: a nearly empty bubble of gas and dust that our solar system is traveling through with a distinct direction and speed. (designworldonline.com)
  • Mineral dust interacts with the global energy budget, ocean biogeochemistry, air quality and agriculture. (mtu.edu)
  • Dust outflow from continental sources is considered a primary source of mineral micronutrients for the open ocean, where biological productivity is limited by the availability of iron. (mtu.edu)
  • In the Solar System , interplanetary dust causes the zodiacal light . (wikipedia.org)
  • In the Solar System , dust plays a major role in the zodiacal light , Saturn 's B Ring spokes , the outer diffuse planetary rings at Jupiter , Saturn, Uranus and Neptune , and comets . (wikipedia.org)
  • NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. (designworldonline.com)
  • Alien dust in the solar system is not unanticipated. (designworldonline.com)
  • The long duration of the Cassini mission has enabled us to use it like a micrometeorite observatory, providing us privileged access to the contribution of dust from outside our solar system that could not have been obtained in any other way," said Altobelli. (designworldonline.com)
  • There are several methods to obtain space dust measurement . (wikipedia.org)
  • If none of these methods is successful in removing the dust, then as a last resort use a one-time wet wipe system specially designed for the camera's sensor ( FIGURE 5.13 ). (peachpit.com)
  • The dust-climate connection exists on multiple temporal scales, from seasonal to interannual, multidecadal or even glacial-interglacial scales," he explained. (mtu.edu)
  • This makes it much more likely that they will mistake a short-term "jump" in dust content for a seasonal change. (icr.org)
  • When the seasonal lake and wetlands in the Sistan Basin dry out, dust often fills the sky. (nasa.gov)
  • At the same time, however, it tends to attract dirt and dust. (myzeo.com)
  • Dust collectors generally refer to industrial cleaners used in high contaminant loading applications. (air-quality-eng.com)
  • They are generally old, pristine and diverse in their composition. (designworldonline.com)
  • There were also significant differences in microbial composition in dust samples and in innate immune cells between the two groups of children. (medscape.com)
  • The dust from these sanders is generally not controlled although some are equipped with dust removal capabilities. (cdc.gov)
  • As the three streaks of dust streamed from the asteroid, their surface brightness decreased. (astronomy.com)
  • And this works better to get dust out because a vacuum cleaner will usually not pick up the dust 'sticking' to the surface because it is not strong enough. (superuser.com)
  • Eventually, the dust clouds became undetectable, and then a faint linear structure appeared. (astronomy.com)
  • The dust cycle is highly sensitive to climate," he added. (mtu.edu)
  • Understanding dust variability and its response to climate is key to reducing the uncertainty of future climate projections. (mtu.edu)
  • I believe the visibility record has not yet been used to its full potential, so I took on the effort to develop a homogenized dust-climate record. (mtu.edu)
  • Xi used the dataset to characterize dust variability and climate connections around the world. (mtu.edu)
  • Anyway, unless you have a space away from where the computers normally live to clean their insides, you'll want to use a vacuum to suck up all the dust dislodged by the compressed air. (superuser.com)
  • On two occasions 1 month apart, urine samples from each participant and dust samples from various rooms were collected from each household and were analyzed for atrazine, metolachlor, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos or their metabolites. (cdc.gov)
  • This could save time and reduce some of the logistical challenges of collecting and analyzing dust samples. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When dust gets inside the camera, it ends up on the sensor - the camera's main light-gathering chip - and can show up on your digital photographs as spots. (boloji.com)
  • The scan of the slide in FIGURE 5.17 shows dust spots that have settled into the emulsion and would not blow off. (peachpit.com)