A magnetometer is a device that measures magnetism: the direction, strength, or relative change of a magnetic field at a ...

SAN ANTONIO — December 17, 2024 —NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a $26 million contract to develop magnetometers for ...

The tree diagram shows three perspectives for evaluating the sensitivity limits (green leaves). These perspectives are interconnected (red dashed lines) and are constrained by fundamental principles ...

Scientists at The University of Arizona will build a prototype instrument to demonstrate their revolutionary idea for a satellite-borne remote sensing system. It will measure water vapor, temperature ...

For comparison, Earth's magnetic field is about 100,000 times stronger than the minimum detectable field, yet around 1,000 times weaker than the maximum field the instrument can measure. This ...

Turning light into magnetic insight The new magnetometer was developed as part of the U.S. National Science Foundation's Quantum Sensing Challenges for Transformational Advances in Quantum Systems ...