Posted on 02/01/2021 7:14:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
Scientists captured this striking image of the Apollo 15 landing site by shooting a powerful radar signal from Earth into space and bouncing it off the lunar surface.
The thin, meandering channel running through the middle of the image is the Hadley Rille, a scar left on the moon after past volcanic activity, likely a collapsing lava tube, according to a statement from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The circular dent pictured near the rille is Hadley C, a crater about 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) in diameter.
Scientists spent two years developing the technology to take these detailed images of the moon from Earth, and now, they can capture snapshots of lunar objects as small as 16.4 feet (5 meters) across from about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. In the future, the researchers plan to develop the technology further, to the point where they can throw radar signals out to the far reaches of the solar system and capture images of Uranus and Neptune, which at their closest are 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) and 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billion km) from Earth, respectively, according to Space.com.
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LOL Oh My word=- too funny
For years a fat alien, a fey alien, and a red headed female alien roamed planet Glorb searching for it. They thought they had finally found it, but it was a only fake which they left in the possession of a seedy private detective.
He declared it to be the stuff dreams are made of.
THE MALTESE GOLF BALL
#36. Perhaps these flags are now the Biden space program’s symbols of surrender.
Let me know when they find the secret Nazi moonbase.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Great post. Thank you.
I look forward to seeing close up visuals of near Earth comets and meteors.
Today, we just get pixel portraits of most of them.
Great and accurate point.
As an Astronautical Engineer at NASA, one of my son’s is several generations down from the engineers who achieved such greatness.
I am guessing...IT WAS SPOCK!
My best friend’s father worked for a technology company based out of New England back in the late Sixties, and they were working on optics that were supposedly at the time to be used from the ground to track rockets being launched.
It was only a cover story, and later it was revealed that those optics were to be used in spy satellites to look back at things on the ground...
were they able to find where they parked the car?
LOL
I must have watched that a half dozen times, and it still makes me laugh!
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