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Aug 09, 2012
Mars Science Laboratory - measurement and calibration on Mars
You can bet there is a lot of test and measurement equipment onboard Curiosity. As a test and measurement professional, I’d like to tell you about some of the things I find especially interesting.
Curiosity landed on Mars August 5, 2012. Literally a roving science laboratory, Curiosity is tightly packed with precision measurement equipment that would normally fill a much larger laboratory. Ten powerful scientific instruments for...
Jul 20, 2012
It takes basic research and a lot of hard work to make primary standards that meet today’s demanding requirements. But how do scientists research the behavior of a sealed system like a triple point of argon cell? You can’t see what’s going on inside, and you can’t know what you can’t see. Or can you?
Realizing the ITS-90
The triple point of argon (83.8058 K ) is one of the most commonly used fixed points for the calibration of standard platinum resistance thermometers (SPRTs) at...
Jul 10, 2012
There is a silent measurement quality crisis and few people are aware. Infrared thermometers are being used more and more for critical temperature measurements without much assurance that their values are accurate. Infrared thermometers can be calibrated to improve and assure measurement accuracy, but even the flat-plate radiation sources used to assure those measurements at temperatures below 1000 °C often lack the traceability necessary to be a reliable as a calibration standard.
So what’s...
Jun 27, 2012
Imagine for a moment you are Bob. Bob lives in New York and recently purchased a deadweight tester from a gentleman in South Carolina. The deadweight tester came with a certificate of calibration, but the instrument appears to read 0.5 to 0.6 psi off when calibrating his 0.05% 1,000 psi gauges. Bob scratches his head, then double checks the gauges with the older equipment he is replacing. The gauges read well within tolerance on his old equipment. Bob is not happy. Can you blame him?
Bob...
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