Radar astronomy
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title:
Radar astronomy
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Radar astronomy is a technique of observing nearby astronomical objects by reflecting radio waves or microwaves off target objects and analyzing their reflections. Radar astronomy differs from radio astronomy in that the latter is a passive observation and the former an active one. Radar systems have been conducted for six decades applied to a wide range of Solar System studies. The radar transmission may either be pulsed or continuous.
The strength of the radar return signal is proportional to
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Observing nearby astronomical objects by analyzing reflected microwaves
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy
date created:
2003-07-10T02:37:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T17:26:27Z
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