Articles tagged: planetary radar

• July 2021 Arecibo - an astounding legacy

  ... Its unique place in the history of science as the world’s largest radio telescope and the most powerful planetary radar has led to hundreds of discoveries relating to pulsars, galaxies, asteroids, comets, planets, exoplanets, and so much more. About...

  • Arecibo Observatory
  • Arecibo telescope
  • planetary radar
  • Radio astronomy
  Authors: Joan Schmelz    
• January 2020 Small body missions unveil interplanetary secrets

  ...impact observations from Earth-based optical telescopes and planetary radar would measure the change in the moonlet’s ... NASA Chief Scientist and was previously the director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters. He received his PhD ...

  • DART
  • Dawn
  • Hyabusa
  • Kuiper Belt objects
  • Lucy
  • MMX
  • New Horizons
  • Psyche
  • robotic mission
  • Rosetta
  • Small body mission
  Authors: James Green    
• 12 August 2020 Arecibo Observatory damaged by broken cable

  ... world to conduct research in the areas of atmospheric sciences, planetary sciences, radio astronomy and radar astronomy. Arecibo is also home to a team that runs the Planetary Radar Project supported by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program...

  • Arecibo Observatory
  • National Science Foundation
  • University of Central Florida