Not exact matches
Essam Marouf, a planetary scientist
at San José State University in California, reported on the first results from a separate
radar experiment that sent
radar reflections to Earth instead of back to the spacecraft.
Some of the evidence is based on
radar reflections, which detect roughness
at the sea surface.
A THIN plating of metallic compounds may explain puzzling
radar reflections from the mountains on Venus, say planetary scientists
at Washington University in Saint Louis.
A closer look
at the data showed a second, weaker
reflection after the first, indicating that the
radar penetrated the sea and reflected off the bottom.
The
radar reflection was low
at the lower 2,400 meter (7,900 foot) elevation, then rapidly brightens up to 4,500 meters (14,700 feet).
Its three very high - frequency band
radar sites in Texas, Arizona and Alabama ping the heavens with radio waves
at wavelengths between 1 and 10 metres and their
reflections enable us to detect objects down to the size of a basketball.
But the most exciting news is that the device will be carrying a 3D sensor
at its back will work by firing lasers out of the device and measuring the time it takes for the
reflection to get back to generate a depth map similar to
Radar.