Science news articles about 'radar measurements'

... up to 5 miles overhead. Operating at 94 GHz, 50 times higher in frequency than most mobile phones, the radar measures the cloud base height, its thickness, density and internal structure as well as ...

... (VLT) in Chile (see ESO 21/05 and 18/07), and space telescopes, or radar ... one hundred largest asteroids of the main belt, while radar measurements are mostly constrained to observations of near-Earth ...

Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation.

... point of iron and plays an important role in producing the planet’s magnetic field. “Recent Earth-based radar measurements of Mercury’s rotation revealed a slight rocking motion that ...

... valley glaciers." At 150 meters, drillers hit a rock at what the team believes was the bottom of the glacier, based on radar measurements of ice depth. The ice cores were flown to ...

... on the magazine's website. Zebker, the lead author, and a group of colleagues have been making radar measurements of Titan's surface over the last four years using an instrument aboard the Cassini ...

... new 3-d map created from radar measurements reveals features in the landscape beneath ... equipment back and forth across the ice measuring its thickness, and building up a picture of the landscape beneath ...

Cassini has discovered evidence that points to the existence of an underground ocean of water and ammonia on Saturn's moon Titan. The findings were made using radar measurements of Titan's rotation.

... rise. They describe how a new 3-D map created from radar measurements reveals features in the landscape beneath a vast river of ice, 10 times wider than the Rhine, in the ...

... compressed and folded, making them difficult to interpret, said White. Radar measurements taken through the ice sheet from above the NEEM site indicate the Eemian ice layers below are ...

... occurrence, you can have substorms going off once an hour.'" Lyons and Kim used the radar measurements to study the strength of the interaction between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere ...