Sentences with phrase «new radar studies»
Antarctica's mountainous landmass remains a mystery, but a new radar study has started mapping the cold continent and tracing its icy origins
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And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds,» said Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a co-author of the study.
New techniques used in this study allowed scientists to efficiently pick out these layers in radar data.
But a new study demonstrates how a French radar instrument on an Indian satellite could greatly enhance seamount maps, putting submariners on safer courses while helping with climate science, fisheries science, and tsunami forecasts.
The Biomass radar will still have to be turned off when it is over North America and Europe because it will interfere with systems used by the military to track objects in space, but forests there are relatively well studied; it's the swathes of forest in the tropics, Siberia, and China that will be the new satellite's main concern.
Such radio traffic could be readily apparent On the earth, for example, a new radar system employed with the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory for planetary studies emits a narrow - bandwidth signal that, if it were detected from another star, would be between a million and 10 billion times brighter than the sun at the same frequency.
Ocean surface height measurements are routinely made from space by radar altimeters, but this new study is the first that uses the GPS reflections.
Now only visible with satellite radar (see an image), the channels flowed intermittently from present - day Libya and Chad to the Mediterranean Sea, says Anne Osborne, a geochemist at the University of Bristol, UK, who led the new study.
But the new study relies on plane - based radar from three flights between 2004 and 2014.
A new study published in Nature Geoscience details how analysts were able to estimate the extent of Greenland's sub-surface ice despite the fact that conventional radar pinging and satellite readings are incapable of measuring to great depths along the icy coast.