Sentences with phrase «radar image of the planet»
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.
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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.
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 spacecraft, after collecting radar images of 98 percent of the planet's surface, makes a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission.