Science news articles about 'radar dish'

A massive space-radar dish in Puerto Rico is providing an appetizing glimpse at a cometary target for a Nov. 4 encounter by NASA's EPOXI mission.

... . The Doppler-on-Wheels (DOW), a data-collecting radar dish, is waiting. This month and next, scientists ... them as they form and cross lakes, which other weather radars can't do." The DOW, or more properly "DOWs ...

... truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah ... to drive the truck and use the 6-foot-diameter radar dish transmitter and receiver. The portable "X ... remain a challenge to predict," Steenburgh says. "Unlike radars used for weather forecasting, the Doppler on Wheels can be placed ...

SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.

... asteroids' past, present and future locations in the cosmos, zapping them with the world's most massive radar dishes, or considering how to rendezvous and perhaps even ...