What is BILI?
Q. What is BILI?- Published on 13 Jan 17a. Only 1
b. New process of cleaning pollution
c. Instrument of NASA
d. New gene
ANSWER: Instrument of NASA
- The Bio-Indicator Lidar Instrument, or BILI is a fluorescence-based lidar, a type of remote-sensing instrument similar to radar in principle and operation.
- Instead of using radio waves, however, lidar instruments use light to detect and ultimately analyse the composition of particles in the atmosphere.
- Although NASA has used fluorescence instruments to detect chemicals in Earth’s atmosphere as part of its climate-studies research, the agency so far hasn’t employed the technique in planetary studies.
- It is a sensing technique that the US military currently uses to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens.
- The beauty of BILI is its ability to detect in real-time small levels of complex organic materials from a distance of several hundred meters
- Therefore, it could autonomously search for bio-signatures in plumes above recurring slopes - areas not easily traversed by a rover carrying a variety of in-situ instruments for detailed chemical and biological analysis.
- This can be used to detect signatures of life on Mars.
