A radar instrument co-sponsored by NASA on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has looked beneath the surface of Mars and opened up a new dimension for planetary exploration.
... and provides a complete and accurate vertical profile. Compared to conventional pulsed radar instruments, this radar is a low power, high sensitivity, portable instrument that uses all solid state ...
New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the ...
New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the ...
... signs of change that may foretell an eruption. Once an eruption begins, optical and radar instruments can capture the lava flows, mudslides, ground fissures and earthquakes.
Atmospheric sensors ...
... (ASAR) instrument aboard Envisat. The dark grey colour represents ice-free areas ... understanding of the polar regions.
Satellite measurements from radar instruments can acquire images through clouds ...
... sea surface.
Moreover, satellite-based radar instruments have the capability of penetrating heavy clouds ... Dr Fabrice Collard of France's CLS radar application division in Brest, have developed sets ...
... and extended darkness, so obtaining measurements of sea ice was difficult before the advent of satellites.
Radar instruments aboard Earth observation satellites, such as Envisat's ASAR sensor, are ...
... robust methods for transforming the P-band radar signals into forest biomass maps are required ... E-SAR (Experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument. Ground measurements are also taken of essential ...
... study Antarctic ice sheets.
The Shallow Radar instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provided ... Mars' polar-layered deposits, long before the instrument reached Mars in 2006.
"We developed ...
... acquire images through clouds and darkness – conditions often found there. ESA is devoting about half of its radar instrument resources to polar area acquisitions.
In 2007, ASAR data showed that ...
... built, both carry Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments that provide high resolution images of ... Doppler frequency shifts in the signals of ERS-2's radar instruments.
ERS-2, launched in 1995, ...
... p.m. (2344 UTC).
TRMM images from TRMM's Precipitation Radar instrument show the horizontal pattern of rain intensity within storms. The false-colored areas in yellow and ...
... mountain chains, dunes and even "lakes". The RADAR instrument on the Cassini orbiter has now allowed ... scientists to image a third of Titan's surface using radar beams that pierce the giant moon's thick ...
... was already a large and well- organized hurricane. TRMM's Microwave Imager and Precipitation Radar instruments revealed that Bill has bands of heavy rainfall.
NASA's Aqua satellite captured Hurricane ...
