Sentences with phrase «radar instrument»

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

Using the Shallow Radar instrument aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Holt was able to peek beneath the ice's surface for clues; in particular, the radar could pick out differences in electrical reflectivity between overlying layers, showing how the ice built up over time.

The volume of water ice in the region were based on measurements from the ground - penetrating radar instrument on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, called SHARAD.

Radio telescopes used as radar instruments have observed the four largest asteroids: Ceres, Pallas, Vesta, and Hygiea, plus smaller asteroids that have flown past us over the years, such as Castalia, Mithra, Itokawa, Toutatis and 2012 DA14, which missed impact by a mere 17,200 miles!

Mars Express has provided the first sub-surface sounding measurements thanks to the first radar instrument ever flown to Mars, and discovered underground water - ice deposits.

The spacecraft carries the first radar instrument ever flown to Mars which has returned pioneering sub-surface sounding measurements that show underground water - ice deposits.

The Radar Science and Operations Groups provide enhanced coordination with the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) science team to ensure ARM radar instruments and data products are producing the information necessary for improving climate model physics.

Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, principal investigator for radar instruments on both spacecraft, says «we will soon have an abundance of data.»

During the flyby, Cassini's radar instrument focused on channels that branch out from the large, northern sea Ligeia Mare.

On September 14, the European Space Agency announced that satellite images captured earlier in the month by the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar instrument aboard its Envisat satellite showed that the Arctic sea ice had dwindled to its smallest size since measurement began 30 years ago.

In April, an Italian radar instrument will search for vast reservoirs of subsurface ice, following up on hints from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.

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.

These measurements may also shed light on the proportion of radioactive elements like uranium and thorium inside the Moon, since their decay produces heat and should increase the amount of heat radiated by the Moon, says Paul Spudis of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, US, who is developing radar instruments to fly on LRO and Chandrayaan - 1.

These data were from an ice - penetrating radar instrument known as the Multichannel Coherent Depth Sounder / Imager, or MCoRDS / I, which is similar to the instrument IceBridge has used since 2009.

To overcome these challenges, CReSIS used a sensitive radar instrument with a large antenna array and used several processing techniques to remove interference and build a view of sub-ice bedrock.

AWARE uses multiple radar instruments and a sophisticated lidar system to explore the clouds» many layers, examining properties such as phase and particle size at various altitudes.

Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.

As SEP events may produce very large enhancements in the ion production rate in the Venusian upper and middle atmosphere, investigations of space weather effects at Venus are relevant to future missions to the planet, particularly those carrying low - frequency radar instruments (Nordheim et al. 2015).

A European probe circling Mars has hit a snag in the deployment of a water - seeking radar instrument, prompting mission controllers to delay the experiment while engineers investigate the problem.

The other Airbus - built instrument, the «Advanced Scatterometer» (ASCAT) is an active radar instrument which measures wind speed and direction over the open sea.

The Scanning ARM Cloud Radar Instrument Platform is home to the cloud radars at the North Slope of Alaska site.

Cassini's visible and near - infrared cameras as well as its radar instrument were able to cut through Titan's haze.

The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the US and several European countries.

These images from the Radar instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the evolution of a transient feature in the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.

The radar instrument observed a glint, indicating an extremely smooth surface like that observed from Titan's hydrocarbon seas.

Those who want to map the surface, for instance, have not determined how much better than Magellan their radar instruments have to be.

By day, they switch on radar instruments and raise webbed nets to track and capture some of the insects buzzing south.

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.

The results, which use data collected by Cassini's radar instrument, are being presented today at the 47th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands, Texas.

A radar instrument, working in concert with a receiver on Philae, got data about the interior of the comet that could help unravel a major question: Does 67P have its duck head and body because two separate cometesimals came together?

Mars Express experienced a major hiccup with MARSIS, a radar instrument that was supposed to be deployed in April 2004.

Although Titan is surrounded by a dense, global haze, Cassini's radar instrument is capable of penetrating that celestial mist to capture details on the moon's surface.

This image from the radar instrument aboard the Cassini spacecraft shows the large hydrocarbon sea named Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon, Titan.

The radar instrument, to probe for water at depths of several kilometres below the surface, was built jointly between Italy and NASA's JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), in California, USA.

Two hours before Hurricane Isaac made landfall, a satellite orbiting hundreds of miles above the storm used a radar instrument to map the storm's inner structure.

IceBridge will use a suite of instruments that includes a laser altimeter, radar instruments, cameras, and a gravimeter, which is an instrument that detects small changes in gravity.

(Huss calibrated his method in the European Alps, where scientists surveyed the ice by dragging a radar instrument over the glacier's surface to help determine the ice's thickness.)

A radar instrument on the Aquarius / SAC - D satellite will correct for wind - caused disturbances along the ocean surface.