Sentences with phrase «radar reflections»
"Radar reflections" refers to the echoes or signals that bounce back to a radar system when it comes into contact with an object or surface. It helps the radar to detect and locate these objects or surfaces. Full definition
However, the 1991 study did no more than indicate that the strong radar reflections came from the polar areas.
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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.
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.
They applied these to two areas in the Odva Regio highlands region of Venus where they confirmed the same pattern of radar reflections brightening with increasing elevation, as was found by previous researchers.
Water ice strongly reflects radar, and observations reveal that there are patches of very high radar reflection near the poles.
Bentley, C.R., N. Lord, C. Liu, Radar reflections reveal a wet bed beneath stagnant Ice Stream C and a frozen bed beneath Ridge BC, West Antarctica, Journal of Glaciology, vol.
The bright red dot at the top of the image indicates strong radar reflection at Mercury's north pole.
Glaciologists also noticed that, in some places, the ordinarily jagged landscape beneath the ice was perfectly flat and the radar reflection unusually bright — indicating water instead of rock.
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).
Such noise competes with reflected signals, making it hard to distinguish a radar reflection from a random blip.
Astronomers used the example of Mars» ice caps to analyze the radar reflections seen on Mercury and propose that those, too, were caused by ice trapped in eternally - dark craters on that otherwise hot world.