Sentences with phrase «reflected radar signals»

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

SIX years ago, radio astronomers discovered an area of about a million square kilometres on the equator of Mars that does not reflect 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.

Not exact matches

Key to understanding the nature of the channels was the way Cassini's radar signal reflected off the bottoms of the features.

Radar signals were routinely reflected off rough, angled features such as sand dunes, cliffs and rocks, but when radar reached Titan's polar regions, regular signals ceRadar signals were routinely reflected off rough, angled features such as sand dunes, cliffs and rocks, but when radar reached Titan's polar regions, regular signals ceradar reached Titan's polar regions, regular signals ceased.

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

Radar satellites come equipped with an antenna that sends radio waves to Earth; after hitting the planet's surface, the signal is reflected and scattered back toward a detector that generates an image without the need for visible light.

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.

The radar signals reflect off of birds and other animals flying through the air.

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

Given HAARP's main goal of studying how signals are reflected, in the hopes of improving long - range communications, the station fires a radar beam to excite a localized patch of the ionosphere and uses passive devices in Gakona and elsewhere to examine the effects.

Clear air turbulence is an enduring problem for commercial aircraft: pilots can not see it coming, it doesn't reflect signals to onboard radar, and satellite monitors can not detect it.