Sentences with phrase «radar signal by»

It hooks into the aircraft's own navigation system and relies on the fact that almost all commercial and military aircraft have a transponder which responds to a radar signal by transmitting the aircraft's identity and altitude.

Shapiro calculated that the sun's gravity well should delay the radar signal by about 200 microseconds, compared with its time back from Mercury without the sun nearby.

Not exact matches

By bouncing radar signals beneath and around a car, hardware - equipped Model S and Model X are able to see two cars ahead, thereby improving the vehicle's reaction time to heavy braking events.

If you look at the graph below, you can see that the line jumped after a steam move (shown by the radar signal) was placed on the Vikings on Thursday.

Radar signals bounced off a crater on the moon's south pole by the US Clementine spacecraft in 1994 hinted at the presence of water ice.

The researchers used radar signals bounced off the ground by satellites that measure how long the pulses take to return to space.

In the early 1960s, Shapiro proposed testing this by bouncing a radar signal off of Mercury when the planet was situated right next to the sun (from our Earthly perspective).

Ice - penetrating radar works by sending radar signals into the ice and recording the strength and return time of reflected signals.

«The signals are not only weak, but they appear at radio frequencies that are used by communication devices and radars, which generate signals billions of times stronger than the cosmic ones that we are trying to detect.»

Butler and two colleagues, Duane Muhleman of the California Institute of Technology and Martin Slade of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, discovered Stealth by bouncing radar signals off Mars in 1988, when the planet's orbit brought it unusually close to the Earth.

The technology works by beaming microwave radar signals into the piles of debris and analyzing the patterns of signals that bounce back.

At altitudes of more than 3 kilometres above the planet's plains, Venusian mountains reflected Magellan's radar signals much more strongly than ordinary rocks, just as if they were covered by ice.

ALES + automatically identifies the portion of the radar signal which is reflected by water and derives sea level values using this information only.

The signal bounced off the asteroid, and its radar echoes were received by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) 100 - meter (330 - foot) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

The distance to the meteor can be determined by measuring the time lapse between the transmitted and reflected radar signals.

Connecting channels (with shapes suggesting that they were carved by a liquid) lead in and out of black patches that essentially reflect no radar signal and so must be extremely smooth like a liquid surface.

Some companies are already doing this, like SmallPlanet, whose members can «crowdsurf» by using their Bluetooth radio signal as a «radar» to find friends or other members at best within 100 feet or less but still allow for members to control their privacy.

Modern radar detectors, such as the Valentine One and various Escort units, are also expected to recognize pulsed, infrared laser beams and even signals from the Ku - band, which is being used by traffic police in Europe but not in the United States — yet.

It can get better signal by using radar [and sending and bouncing a stronger radio signal off the target].

The altimeter measures sea surface height by bouncing radar signals off the ocean and timing their echo.