Sentences with phrase «radar maps of»

In conjunction with other instruments, it will help make highly accurate radar maps of some familiar objects in our own solar system.

NASA has not sent a spacecraft to Venus since 1989, when the Magellan probe made detailed radar maps of the surface hidden under those sulfurous clouds.

The team found that patterns in radar maps of layers in the ice cap made with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are consistent with flowing ice (Journal of Geophysical Research, DOI: 10.1029 / 2009je003405).

Modern radar mapping of Antarctica didn't begin in earnest until the 1990s, so pushing the data set back another two decades is a significant improvement, he says.

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.

Recent radar mapping of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (top left) reveal that a new crack (right in both inset and white section of diagram) has forked from a long fissure that cuts across the ice shelf.

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on this date and later on August 23 made a radar map of Mercury, specifically the side that Mariner 10 did not photograph.

Radar mappings of Venus by interplanetary probes indicate volcano - like mountains, and there is other evidence for volcanoes as well.

Not exact matches

Like its predecessors, Pegasus ingests all of the data that self - driving cars generate from their camera, radar, and LiDAR sensors and quickly processes that data to create a map of the vehicle's surroundings.

Intel Corp. will supply Delphi with high - capacity computers needed to process input from radar, cameras and laser sensors as well as maps of roadside landmarks.

The software itself uses a combination of cameras, ultrasonic sensors, radar, and mapping data, which all feed into how the car handles itself and where it drives.

It was Graham's This House, a fictionalised account of the Callaghan government, that put him firmly on the artistic map — and on MPs» radar.

It is something of a puzzle that free speech of a different hue, the right to dissent and to protest, is not simply under the radar but has almost disappeared from the political map.

Sentinel R1 was originally planned to be axed after the Afghanistan draw - down, but its usefulness (in flood mapping, Libya and Mali) has extended its service life, with it now planned to get a maritime mode upgrade to its already highly capable radar with a contract set to be signed in spring of 2015.

Although the subglacial topography is vastly important, «it's unlikely we're ever going to [map] the whole of Antarctica in great detail using radar echo sounding — it's just too costly,» Fretwell says.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

They perceive an agency bias against Venus, a planet that hasn't seen a U.S. mission since the Magellan probe radar - mapped its shrouded surface in the early 1990s, and which won't see one any time soon, after NASA this year rejected a bumper crop of Venus proposals.

In Antarctica, the first widespread radar mapping took place between 1967 and 1979, in a programme run by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in Cambridge, UK; the US National Science Foundation; and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Scientists can partially reconstruct this past environment with fossils and through radar that peers beneath the ice to map the shapes of the rock below.

Researchers previously used MRO's Shallow Radar (SHARAD) to map extensive underground water - ice sheets in middle latitudes of Mars and estimate that the top of the ice is less than about 10 yards beneath the ground surface.

Scientists using ice - penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice Sheet, opening a window on past climate conditions and the ice sheet's potentially perilous future.

With his ground - penetrating radar, Michele Pipan, a geophysicist at the University of Trieste, gradually mapped the subsurface structures (some three to four meters deep) below the 500 - meter shore perimeter.

The NASA space probe Magellan spent four years mapping the surface of Venus, using a sensitive radar to peer through the sulphurous clouds that shroud the planet.

A popular solution for mobile robots is called simultaneous localization and mapping, or SLAM, in which the robot pieces together input from sensors such as cameras, laser radars and wheel odometry to create a 3 - D map of the new environment and to figure out where the robot is within that 3 - D world.

The team mapped rainfall between June and September 2011 and found that readings derived from cellular data tended to agree with those from the traditional combination of rain gauges and radar.

It will use ice - penetrating radar to measure the thickness of the moon's ice shell, map its internal rifts and faults (clues to the tempo of its geologic activity) and locate pockets of water near the surface.

The seismologists also talked to Duncan Young and Don Blankenship of the University of Texas who fly airborne radar over Antarctica to produce topographic maps of the bedrock.

In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Hercules aircraft with downward - looking radars flew thousands of miles of survey lines across the continent to map the subglacial landscape.

Co-author Fielding used satellite radar imagery to create a map of the terrain that dropped during the earthquake and where land surface had risen.

Its radar sounder will seek buried water, while its camera will map features as small as a coffee table, aiding the search for potential habitats of past or present life.

Now researchers have built simulations of currents in the large seas in the moon's northern hemisphere, using maps created from radar data collected by the Cassini probe.

Instead, radar has been used by spacecraft to penetrate the clouds and map out the surface — both by reflecting radar off the surface to measure elevation and by looking at the radio emissions of the hot surface.

In the coming weeks we will venture far from this camp, using ice - penetrating radar to map the landscape half a mile below the surface of the ice.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

«It's sobering to think we have just a little bit more than half of Titan mapped now with Cassini radar, which is the highest resolution data,» he says.

Over the past two decades my company has used imaging radar satellites to map oil on the sea surface for 70 million square kilometres of ocean.

When Anderson and Waters combined those readings with the radar data, they could chart maps of the electrical power flowing into and out of the ionosphere.

Conyers is using radar in Tunisia to map third - century Christian catacombs and in northern Peru to scout for buried tombs and other architecture at the Moche site of El Brujo.

Ever since NASA's Magellan spacecraft radar - mapped Venus twenty years ago, researchers have been struck by the relative sparseness and random distribution of its impact craters.

The radar waves bounced off the rock beneath the ice; returning echoes yielded this contour map of peaks and valleys as well as hundreds of miles of interconnected subglacial lake systems.

The UC Berkeley team used 19 years of satellite data to map ground deformation using interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and measure creep along the southern end of the Hayward Fault, and found, surprisingly, that the creep didn't stop south of Fremont, the presumed southern end of the fault, but continued as far as the Calaveras Fault.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

This year Joshua Wurman of the University of Oklahoma and his collaborators plan to use a pair of Doppler radars, which will enable them to assemble more complete, three - dimensional maps of wind patterns

But radar mapping shows that a crack has split off from the main rupture like a snake's forked tongue, members of Project MIDAS, an Antarctic research group, report May 1.

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

There is no risk of a collision, but the near miss offers a chance to observe the asteroid up close, for instance, using radar to map its surface.

Although radar systems have been used in the past to provide high - resolution maps of Venus» surface, Venus Express is the first orbiting spacecraft to produce a map that hints at the chemical composition of the rocks.

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Six days after its initial discovery, AWI scientists conducted a more detailed aerial survey of the circular feature in the ice shelf, taking photos and videos, and collecting laser altimeter and radar data mapping the feature's contours in detail.

The best map of the planet's surface is based on radar data from Magellan a quarter century ago.