Sep 29, 2023
I once knew a lot about radars
The line of what appear to be storms at intervals from Orlando where the radar is (I drew the blue line) are probably artifacts from some hardware or electronic fault in the radar or in the software.
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seen from Italy
I once knew a lot about radars
The line of what appear to be storms at intervals from Orlando where the radar is (I drew the blue line) are probably artifacts from some hardware or electronic fault in the radar or in the software.
Radar Image of the surface of Venus, centered at 180 degrees east longitude. Magellan imaging 1990-94
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Surface of Venus
“Soviet radar image taken of Venus' northern latitudes by the Venera 15 and 16 spacecrafts in 1983. The images were presented to NASA by the Soviet Academy of Sciences during a December 1987 visit of NASA scientists to the Soviet Academy.”