radar astronomy
noun
: astronomy in which celestial bodies in the solar system are studied by analyzing the return of radio waves directed at them
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In Focus ASTRONOMY China plans asteroid hunter China is constructing the world’s largest radar astronomy array, which will help track asteroids that could threaten Earth.
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Byscience News Staff, science.org, 23 Feb. 2023
After the catastrophic collapse of Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory, only one other active radar astronomy facility remains: NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of the Deep Space Network, which communicates with spacecraft across the solar system.
—Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2023
But Arecibo’s legacy in radio and radar astronomy and atmospheric physics, as well as its searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and harmful near-Earth objects, had darker origins.
—Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
The observatory’s instruments were used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy, according to UCF.
—Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
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Byscience News Staff, science.org, 23 Feb. 2023
After the catastrophic collapse of Puerto Rico’s famed Arecibo Observatory, only one other active radar astronomy facility remains: NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of the Deep Space Network, which communicates with spacecraft across the solar system.
—Briley Lewis, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2023
But Arecibo’s legacy in radio and radar astronomy and atmospheric physics, as well as its searches for extraterrestrial intelligence and harmful near-Earth objects, had darker origins.
—Ben Evans, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2022
The observatory’s instruments were used by scientists around the world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy, according to UCF.
—Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
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