Sentences with phrase «radar images of the surface»
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.
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Some of the most stunning images of Saturn's moon Titan are made using a synthetic aperture radar to penetrate the thick atmosphere to see the frigid surface.
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.
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.
The study used images and other data from Cassini's radar instrument, which can peer through the obscuring smog of Titan's atmosphere to reveal the surface in detail.
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 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.
That maneuver, NASA told USA Today will be the probe's «final opportunity for up - close observations of the lakes and seas of liquid hydrocarbons that spread across the moon's northern polar region, and the last chance to use its powerful radar to pierce the haze and make detailed images of the surface.»
The spacecraft, after collecting radar images of 98 percent of the planet's surface, makes a dramatic conclusion to its highly successful mission.
The world's two largest radio telescopes have combined to make detailed radar images of the cloud - shrouded surface of Venus and of a tiny asteroid that passed near the Earth.