Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very
high radar reflection near the poles.
Not exact matches
The storm - chasing aircraft's new scatterometer — a microwave
radar sensor that measures the
reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth — can see inside the storm with
high resolution, something akin to a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
Its three very
high - frequency band
radar sites in Texas, Arizona and Alabama ping the heavens with radio waves at wavelengths between 1 and 10 metres and their
reflections enable us to detect objects down to the size of a basketball.