Sentences with phrase «radio waves instead»

Radar, like lidar, sends out a signal and waits for it to bounce back, but it uses radio waves instead of light.

This technology uses magnets and radio waves instead of X-rays, making it safer.

So Matthew Ryan, a chemist from Purdue University, and colleagues turned to low - energy radio waves instead.

Not exact matches

Instead, the Bob Marley who surveys his kingdom today is smiling benevolence, a shining sun, a waving palm tree, a string of hits which tumble out of polite radio like candy from a gumball machine.

Instead of such circuits, an SDR uses digital - signal - processing chips to allow a programmer to define the wave shape of a radio signal, the frequency it uses and the power level.

MagMIMO does the same thing, but using magnetic fields instead of radio waves.

Instead of searching for the light from individual galaxies with an optical telescope, the team stalked a different quarry, red - shifted radio waves emitted by hydrogen atoms floating in huge clouds within the galaxies.

Instead, Sun's team searched for radio waves from the next most abundant interstellar molecule, carbon monoxide gas.

It's called optical SETI, and its instruments are focused on a different band of the light spectrum than radio astronomy, looking instead at the same waves our eyes take in, along with infrared frequencies, which are just a smidge longer.

This year, ALMA - J Project Office presented: explanation of ALMA using poster exhibition and a miniature of the ALMA site; mini-lectures by six lecturers; celestial journey in the Chilean skies using a constellation camera at the Operations Support Facility of ALMA; a mini-experiment to see if rubber balls fallen from a higher place (to resemble radio waves from the universe) are collected into the focal point of an antenna dish; and another experiment to receive satellite broadcasts using a lid of a pot, instead of an antenna dish.

It is a surveying technology that uses lasers instead of radio waves to measure the distance of formations.

At right, the jet can not punch out of the shell of explosion debris, but instead sweeps up material into a broad «cocoon,» which absorbs the jet's energy and emits X-rays and radio waves over a wider angle.

Instead of using x-rays, MRI uses a powerful magnet and transmits radio waves through the body; the images appear on a computer screen as well as on film.

Lidar — an alternative take on radar using lasers to analyze light waves instead of radio waves — lacks radar's range and, like cameras, is sensitive to weather conditions.

But instead of pulses of sound or radio waves, a LIDAR scanner emits laser beams and measures the time that they take to return in order to map the location and elevation of objects in the surrounding area.

Audio - only monitors that utilize radio waves are quickly becoming the exception, instead of the norm.

Researchers at the University of Washington have invented a prototype phone that makes calls using energy from ambient radio waves and sunlight instead of a battery.