Sentences with phrase «sending radio waves»

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.

Specifically, they analyzed radio occultations — made when Voyager 2 sent radio waves through the rings to be detected back on Earth — and stellar occultations, made when the spacecraft measured the light of background stars shining through the rings, which helps reveal how much material they contain.

There are scientific benefits to pinpointing its location, says Wlodek Kofman, principal investigator on Rosetta's CONSERT (Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission) experiment, designed to send radio waves between the parent craft and Philae to study the comet's interior.

Not exact matches

They sent the message via radio waves and transmitted it 9 different times.

The electrons or radio waves that are sent directly from your own computer usually don't get far — a few hundred feet at most — before being digested by another computer.

IBM and Mediatek plan to ultimately develop ways to wirelessly connect high - definition TVs to set - top boxes using millimeter - wave radio technology, which takes advantage of the highest frequency portion of the radio spectrum where massive amounts of information can be sent quickly.

It comprises an algorithm that recognises the unique reflections created when fingers interrupt a burst of the radio waves that send information between your phone and the cellphone mast.

Most SETI researchers look for signals sent by sentient beings in radio waves, because these waves traverse galaxies without interference from gas and dust.

Last year astronomers used the telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to send a beam of radio waves to Titan.

Telescope operator Ángel Vázquez sent the first damage reports via short - wave radio on September 21.

A tiny camera in a pair of glasses will send the image via radio waves into the mouth.

Radar works by sending out radio waves that reflect off particles in the atmosphere, such as raindrops or ice or even insects and dust.

These rapidly spinning neutron stars (the cores left behind after a massive star explodes) send out steady pulses of radio waves.

As passengers stand still with their hands up, two rotating antennas send out radio waves.

So far, most of the hunt for alien signals has used radio waves, based on the theory that radio is a relatively easy and cheap way to send signals a long way through space.

Even in places where a dense network of stations already exists, some stations lack high - speed and reliable telemetry — the data communication capabilities that include everything from radio waves to satellite and commercial internet to send seismic signals to a central data processing center in real time.

The panels gather radio waves from the sky and focus them onto a feed antenna (2) that amplifies the signals and sends them to a control room where data are analyzed.

The volumetric impedance phase shift spectroscopy (VIPS) device (Cerebrotech VisorTM, Cerebrotech Medical Systems, Pleasanton, CA) works by sending low - energy radio waves through the brain that change frequency when passing through fluids.

Both could be programmed by radio waves, and both could send data back out to us by radio waves.»

The older analogue phones, which send their signal as a wave of varying frequency, akin to FM radio, had no noticeable effect, says Roger Carrillo, who led the Mount Sinai study.

Three antennas were directed toward the object and radio waves received by each antenna were converted to digital signals, and then, these digital signals were sent to the ACA Correlator and synthesized.

NANOGrav uses the Galaxy itself to detect gravitational waves with the help of objects called pulsars — exotic, dead stars that send out pulses of radio waves with extraordinary regularity.

This work branched off from a previous Arbabian lab creation, a tiny chip dubbed the «ant - sized radio» that can send and receive signals over radio waves without a battery.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful lighthouse beams of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been lying about their ages.

Pulsars, those spinning, superdense neutron stars that send powerful «lighthouse beams» of radio waves and light flashing through the Universe, have been «lying about their ages,» leading astronomers, and possibly particle physicists, to erroneous conclusions for the past 30 years, according to researchers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope.

December 2016 — Retailer Merch Sent Out Rockstar may have retreated into radio - silence, but some of the waves made by the announcement only hit the shore later on.

Two cool twists here: the Buick was developed with a «one - tire» philosophy, optimizing the vehicle around a single 18 - inch Continental tire size; and the Encore becomes the first Buick to use active noise cancellation technology, sending opposite sounds waves from the radio to quell noise.

Vintage clocks are used to play with time, and radios connect sound and frequency to the unseen energy of «radio waves» while «space age» TV antennas both send and receive messages.

But the radios and antenna built by people to send waves through the ether didn't stop working as a result of that revolution.

Millimeter waves have limitations, but they're a good fit for MIMO — a wireless system that uses multiple radios to send and receive data simultaneously.

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