Sentences with phrase «radar beams bounce»
Waves of vibrating electrons, freed by ultraviolet light from the sun, seem to be why radar beams bounce off the upper atmosphere
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As the meteor broke apart, the radar beam bounced off the pieces.
Not exact matches
The technology works by beaming microwave radar signals into the piles of debris and analyzing the patterns of signals that bounce back.
Instead the X rays are Doppler - shifted, like aradar beam bouncing off a speeding car (the radar waves hit the gunmore often if the car is moving toward the gun and less often if thecar is moving away from the gun).
The spots appear blackbecause the radar beams that strike there are not scattered back towardthe spacecraft; rather, they bounce cleanly off into space.
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.
These instruments shoot a radar beam at the surface of the ocean and measure the time it takes to bounce back.