Sentences with phrase «many radar images»

A trained person can look at a series of radar images and see how the storm is moving and evolving, which areas are increasing or decreasing in intensity, and where the rain is headed.

The question is whether Spiegel will stick to his under - the - radar image or address investors head - on.

The radar images showed a magic island, and the infrared ones showed a peak in brightness at the same spot.

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

IT»S A BIRD... This radar image of the Chinese Tiangong - 1 space station was recently captured by scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer FHR research institute.

The researchers combined the altimetry data with previous radar images of the region to make their discovery.

While the rift is only visible in radar images when it is more than 50m wide, by combining pairs of images, SRI allows the impact of very small changes in ice shelf geometry to be detected, and the rift tip to be monitored precisely.

In the past, radar images of the majority of the world's volcanoes were only acquired a few times a year, but seismological data indicate that the duration of unrest before an eruption might be as short as only a few days.

These recently released radar images were taken by the space shuttle Endeavour in 1994 as part of a geologic study of climate change in northwest China.

In the radar images, Bamber and colleagues immediately spotted a massive canyon.

In the radar images, Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues spotted a massive canyon.

DEEP DOWN One of the largest seas on Titan, Ligeia Mare, seen in this false - color radar image taken by the Cassini spacecraft, extends more than 200 meters below the moon's surface.

First radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 were obtained when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth.

Radar images of the moon's surface obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show evidence of volcanic domes, craters, and lavalike flows, probably from a frigid mixture of water and ammonia.

This is a radar image of one of the areas sampled on Ovda.

1944: With the help of aircraft, researchers capture radar images of a cyclone's eye and spiral bands for the first time.

Pettersson's picture is actually a patchwork of satellite photos and radar images that he has assembled.

Scientists comparing radar images from the Cassini spacecraft with geophysical models say that the three ridges in this image, released yesterday, were created when Titan's gradual cooling after its formation caused partial freezing of the moon's subsurface ocean of water and ammonia.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

This size comparison is not evident in the radar images because of the way they were processed.

The resolution of radar images, however, depends on how the signal is coded and the strength of the return signal, not the size of a telescope lens or mirror.

«Radar Images of Near - Earth Asteroid.»

Radar image of asteroid 2004 BL86 made by the Green Bank Telescope from radar transmitted from NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Network antenna.

Looking at radar images of the derecho, the system appears as a kind of boomerang - shaped band of high - intensity winds with a circular, cooler mass of air behind it.

Radar images show that water under the base of the ice sheet refreezes into ice, creating a new bottom layer that accounts for up to half the total thickness of the ice sheet in some locations.

«Radar images provide details on Halloween asteroid.»

NCAR's Forecast Icing Product — Severity (FIP - S) software analyses satellite radar images to detect the atmospheric conditions that lead to icing.

The radar images achieve a spatial resolution as fine as 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel.

There is now a companion to Voyager 1's famous snap looking at our planet from the depths of space: a radar image of the probe taken from Earth, 11.5 billion kilometres away.

Radar images received by the Green Bank Telescope reveal new details of the surface of asteroid 2015 TB145.

The highest - resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed and yield new information about its surface features.

The radar images were taken as the asteroid flew past Earth on October 31 at 1 p.m. EDT at about 1.3 lunar distances (300,000 miles, or 480,000 kilometers) from Earth.

«The images look distinctly different from the Arecibo radar images obtained on October 30 and are probably the result of seeing the asteroid from a different perspective in its three - hour rotation period.»

The spacecraft also took measurements of the planet's surface with a laser, which again suggested patches of ice — although some of the bright regions in the radar images showed up dark in the laser's readings.

(The Japanese satellite is called ALOS, though the radar image accompanying this story is from a Canadian craft.)

Radar images created by the Magellan spacecraft reveal that Venus's surface is odd too.

Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.

Similar illusion devices could eventually be used for stealth technology: for example, to «convert the radar image of an aircraft into a flying bird», Cui says.

Radar images might never be the same again, thanks to an illusion device that can change an object's appearance.

Higgins and her colleagues used satellite - radar images to measure subsidence near the Yellow River delta.

In addition, optical and radar images of the surface show signs of cryovolcanism — geyserlike eruptions of ammonia - water ice — which also indicates that material wells up from the interior.

Still, the radar images should give a better sense of the object's shape and spin, which will improve our understanding of its likely future path, she says.

Partial mosaic of 70 cm radar images of nearside of the moon taken by the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) from radio waves transmitted by the Arecibo Telescope.

The beam of 8.5 - GHz microwaves sent from Goldstone bounced off Mercury and was collected at the VLA to produce a radar image of the planet.

Magellan, JPL, NASA Larger radar image.

Mercury's north polar region, in a radar image obtained with the Arecibo radio telescope.

Radar images from the flyby indicate that the body is about a kilometre in diameter, while infrared spectra indicate that the comet's nucleus is as dark as fresh asphalt.

Added to this, the MRO discovered that the comet nucleus was smaller than thought with a diameter of only 1.2 miles (2 km) and rotates once every eight hours, and the radar images it took were smeared due to energy levels ten times greater than normal.

Meanwhile, the MRO's Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD) took radar images of the ionosphere and its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera took images of the comet's nucleus.

The spacecraft, after collecting radar images of 98 percent of the planet's surface, makes a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission.