calibration
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Artist Damien Hirst created a spot painting to serve as a calibration target for the lander's onboard camera.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The improved calibration could also help researchers verify other dating techniques, including carbon-14 dating of organic materials and uranium-lead dating of rocks that formed billions of years ago early in Earth's history.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Achieving a more precise calibration of argon-argon dating was an important part of that larger effort.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
The Vesuvius measurements from 1997 were included in that earlier calibration, but their uncertainties were large enough that they had relatively little influence on the final result.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
It was rectangular in shape and made of thick, soft, yellow plastic, with calibration marks on one side.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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