Sentences with phrase «radio signals from»

Voluminous radio signals from other star systems have been collected, but they remain almost impossible to decode.

Another was finding weak radio signals from a crippled space vehicle.

Under the theme Hertzian Tales, a few of such shielding object are the Faraday Chair shelter, the Thief of Affection that «steals radio signals from cardiac pacemakers» (quote from WeMakeMoneyNotArt) Protective Knickers and the PerCushion which is a cushion that lights up when frequencies become stronger and gives of warning signals.

A large radio disk can detect radio signals from an asteroid tens of millions of km [or 100 or 1000 millions] from Earth.

This includes radio signals from Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.

The technology converts the radio signals from AC to DC much like the little boxes attached to our charger cables do for charging our gadgets.

The ALMA compares radio signals from 66 high - precision telescopes — or antennas that look like satellite dishes, Wootten says — spaced up to 15 kilometers, or roughly nine miles, apart.

Non-detection of impulsive radio signals from lightning in Martian dust storms using the radar receiver on the Mars Express spacecraft D. A. Gurnett, D. D. Morgan, L. J. Granoth, B. A. Cantor, W. M. Farrell, and J. R. Espley Geophysical Research Letters 37, L17802, doi: 10.1029 / 2010GL044368, 1 September 2010.

Physics and political science senior David Narkevic had been looking through readouts of radio signals from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.

Renamed the Green Bank Interferometer, this pair's interference (fringe) patterns were very good, showing astronomers the periodic changes in radio signals from objects that dimmed and brightened over time.

ALMA detected radio signals from hot water vapor with high angular resolution.

Alvaro has contributed the design of the receiver optics components, which guide the radio signals from the antenna to the receiver (e.g. a plastic lens to re-focus the radiation from astronomical sources and the horn to collect these radio waves).

Another week would pass before the Very Large Array radio telescopes in New Mexico detected the first radio signals from the merger.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) newly commissioned Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's newly commissioned Green Bank Telescope have detected remarkably faint radio signals from an 820 year - old pulsar, making it the youngest radio - emitting pulsar known.

The unmanned 478 kg (1,054 lb) spacecraft was sent on a 9.5 - year mission to fly by Pluto — a distance so far that radio signals from the nuclear - powered probe take four hours to reach Earth.

Or when it first received radio signals from the Universe on August 2nd?

If it is an alien spacecraft, perhaps we might detect some radio signals from it.

On February 19, 2006, Turnbull named HR 483 A as a Sun - like star that is old enough to qualify as a top - five candidate for those listening for radio signals from intelligent civilizations, such as the SETI Institute.

The GNSS tide gauge uses radio signals from satellites in orbit around Earth that are part of satellite navigation systems like GPS and Glonass (Russia's equivalent of GPS).

The most widely celebrated use of the technology is the SETI@home project, which analyzes radio signals from the Arecibo telescope in search of signs of extraterrestrial life.

Perhaps the best known example is SETI@home, in which volunteers» PCs comb tiny chunks of data for radio signals from alien life.

First conceptualized in the early 1960s, GPS is a space - based navigation system that allows a receiver to compute its location and velocity by measuring the time it takes to receive radio signals from four or more overhead satellites.

For this reason the most readily detectable radio signals from another civilization may come from outside our galaxy.

Congress cut off funding to listen for radio signals from extraterrestrials in 1993, and these days much of the research is supported at the whim of Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft.

For years scientists scratched their heads over the «Pioneer anomaly»: Radio signals from the twin spacecraft, which are no longer in contact with Earth, showed they were decelerating more rapidly than could be explained solely by the pull of the sun or other known physical effects.

A team of researchers from Center for Biomedical Technology (CTB) at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has developed a pocket instrument capable of perceiving radio signals from 50 MHz to 6 MHz and storing this information in a non-volatile memory.

This technique combines disparate radio signals from distant telescopes to produce images of far greater resolution than what any one scope can manage.

That's why Doeleman and his EHT colleagues are hard at work devising a way to extract radio signals from 50 or more radio dishes at ALMA without interfering with the array's primary mission: studying the origins of the universe.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

Once focused mainly on detecting radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations, the institute now employs scientists studying many factors important for the existence of alien life — from Kepler team members who are detecting and characterizing exoplanetary systems, to astrobiologists searching for life in the most extreme environments on Earth and in the solar system's exotic nooks and crannies.

Data collected in space, like video transmission of a spacewalk, travel as radio signals from antennas on spacecraft to much larger antennas on Earth, some with diameters up to 230 feet.

Since January, temperatures on the comet have been too chilly for Philae's electronics; mission scientists stopped listening for radio signals from the lander in July.

«Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein's General Relativity.»

It's a long shot, but scientists are about to listen very closely for radio signals from our solar system's first known interstellar visitor

In 1925, Houdina Radio Control navigated a driverless 1926 Chandler down traffic - filled Manhattan by operating it with radio signals from a car following behind.

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

The siren, located on County Route 1 in Scriba near the entrance to the Novelis Aluminum plant, went off shortly after 3:00 a.m. and again just before 4:00 a.m. County 911 officials received a radio signal from the siren that indicated a malfunction.

«The one that I am most excited about is tracking the radio signal from Spirit,» Squyres said.

Confirmation came from a planned loss of radio signal from the spacecraft.

The radio signal from a tag can't travel through a person's body.

In 2009, French astronomers observed what was thought to be a weak radio signal from an exoplanet five times bigger than the Earth.

In reality there would be a lapse of about twenty minute since that's how long it would take a radio signal from the Earth to reach Mars!

A special chip reader recognizes the radio signal from the chip and reads this number through the skin of your pet.

Zane Zaminsky (Charlie Sheen), a radio astronomer working for SETI, discovers an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star 14 light years from Earth.

Not exact matches

NASA uses a technique called data sonification to take signals from radio waves, plasma waves, and magnetic fields and convert them into audio tracks to «hear» what's happening in space.

The radio telescope should be able to pick up signals was faint as those from a cellphone.

From smoke signals to Morse code to radio to television, each new tool we invent changes the way we communicate.

Generally, these devices operate on a wireless radio frequency that transmits a signal from the monitor to the receiver.

Older wireless receivers used analog signals, but these are open to interference from other wireless devices like cell phones, cordless land line phones, radios, etc..