Sentences with phrase «own radio antenna»

The vibrations can be picked up with an AM radio antenna a short distance away.

As a result the radio antenna was unable to work and so no signals could be sent back to Earth.

And for a radio antenna he had substituted a coat hanger bent double; a friend had grabbed the antenna and snapped it off while falling from the hood in the aftermath of a party.

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During four nights this week the poles — actually interconnected radio antennae — will spring to life after three years of dormancy, and heat the highest wisps of our atmosphere directly above.

Here, lion - killing Masai warriors have swapped spears for radio antennas and are now among the species» most dedicated guardians (ConservationBiology, doi.org/x2b).

The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.

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Because of the extreme distances and power limitations of the radio antenna, data from the New Horizons encounter, which in July flew within 12,500 kilometers of Pluto's surface, is still being beamed back to Earth.

The radio antennas that will make up HERA are each 14 meters (42 feet) wide, or about the length of a city bus.

The mysteries started early; during its first orbit, Cassini wielded its large radio antenna like a shield to protect itself from possible ring particles.

At the end of the fibre, those signals are broadcast using a radio antenna, providing 3G and Wi - Fi access simultaneously, for instance.

Evolutionary algorithms are often used to help improve things like aircraft wings or radio antennas in ways that humans might not have conceived of.

To find out, Judd Bowman of Arizona State University in Tempe and Alan Rogers of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology deployed a small radio antenna called EDGES in Western Australia.

That tank carries a camera, spectrometers, magnetometers, plasma and particle detectors, a microwave sensor and a radio antenna.

The array began operating in 2007, using low - cost electronics to combine the input from the many radio antennas and to comb through the resulting signal, simultaneously doing conventional radio astronomy and scanning for signals from ET.

Now, a radio antenna has reportedly picked up that resulting signature.

The researchers used the ALMA radio telescope, which consists of 66 individual radio antennas that together form a giant virtual telescope with a 16 - kilometre diameter.

The team shows that a nanoscale metal rod on graphene (acting as an antenna for light) can capture infrared light and transform it into graphene plasmons, analogous to a radio antenna converting radio waves into electromagnetic waves in a metal cable.

17 In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing the instrument's annoying steady hiss.

The team sent the signals from a 70 - metre radio antenna in Goldstone, California, and recorded the returning signals using the Very Large Array (VLA) of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico to compile a radar map of Mars.

In the lab, Hawkes and his colleagues programmed the robot to form 3 - D structures such as a radio antenna, turn off a valve, navigate a maze, swim through glue, act as a fire extinguisher, squeeze through tight gaps, shimmy through fly paper and slither across a bed of nails.

During the encounter, radio antennas in NASA's Deep Space Network tracked Galileo as the moon's gravity tugged it.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

The Curiosity rover's selfies have gained a lot of fans on Earth, but their arrival depends entirely on the Deep Space Network (DSN), an overlooked and overworked collection of 50 - year - old radio antennas installed in remote locations across the world.

More than 44,000 radio antennas will soon link over the Internet to create one of the most ambitious radio telescopes ever built.

Saints: SETI Donors After eight months of inactivity, the 42 radio antennas of the Allen Telescope Array in Hat Creek, California, resumed their search for signals from extraterrestrial life last December.

The incident was one of several recent glitches in the Deep Space Network (DSN), NASA's complex of large radio antennas in California, Spain, and Australia.

He has «bred» designs for efficient radio antennas this way.

Plans are underway for 37 subsurface clusters of radio antennae

«We can literally image the frequency of the electron, and we see this electron suddenly pop into our radio antenna,» says Joe Formaggio, an associate professor of physics at MIT.

A radio antenna then picks up very weak signals emitted by the electrons, which can be used to map the electrons» precise activity over several milliseconds.

Gerard Baumgart and four colleagues from the French conservation charity Patrons of Science and Art followed two bugged toads with a hand - held radio antenna day and night for the whole week.

When astronomers aimed the 66 radio antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile at the star HL Tauri, 450 light years away, they saw concentric rings around it — the first such sighting for any star.

The most famous example, operating since 1980, is the Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, N.M., which has 27 active radio antennas mounted on railroad tracks in a Y configuration (another dish is kept as a spare).

The first phase of the Allen Telescope Array, which is being built near Hat Creek, California, US, has begun functioning with 42 radio antennas.

However, the adornments on this 6 - metre - tall hulk are radio antennas rather than baubles.

Trying to make the best use of instrument time, Todd R. Pedersen of Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts and Elizabeth A. Gerken of Cornell University trained their radio antennas on a natural aurora event in Alaska.

It can extend into three dimensions up structures like radio antennas, lift heavy objects such as a 75 - kilogram crate and operate valves.

At 8:52:37 p.m. Eastern time, a radio antenna near Madrid received the first signal from the spacecraft since it buzzed the dwarf planet.

He spent 10 years in Bordeaux and Toulouse, refining his knowledge of radio antennas.

As the spacecraft left the inner Solar System in 1991, its main radio antenna failed to open properly, leaving it useless.

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th - Century Science Alan Lightman; Pantheon, $ 32.50 Arno Penzias and Bob Wilson cleared a pair of pigeons out of their radio antenna in an attempt to eliminate a faint hum.

Radio antennas with NASA's Deep Space Network will occasionally listen for signals from Spirit — just in case — says Dave Lavery, NASA's program executive for solar system exploration.

The new detection was made using the Experiment to Detect Global Epoch - of - Reionization Signature (EDGES), a small radio antenna located in a remote region of outback Australia (Credit: CSIRO Australia)

The new detection was made using the Experiment to Detect Global Epoch - of - Reionization Signature (EDGES), a small radio antenna located in a remote region of outback Australia

If successful, it will take the burden off the aging gyroscopes used to keep the spacecraft's vital high - gain radio antenna pointed at Earth.

But it seems the astronomy community is taking this lead seriously and the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array, an array of 42 radio antennae in California, have been pointed at the star in the hope of replicating the RATAN - 600 observation.

Of course, it also has a microwave sensor and a radio antenna.

The design of Beagle - 2 required full deployment in order to uncover the radio antenna needed to transmit a response to mission controllers back on Earth.