11 February 2021, 7:20 am EST By
With the technology we have today, it is still challenging for scientists to have a closer look at surfaces of near-Earth celestial objects, but thanks to an upgrade done to a radio telescope in West Virginia, scientists were given an unprecedented look at the moon.
(Photo : Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/AUI/NSF/USGS)
The radio telescope signals were able to create high-quality images of the surface of the moon.
Successful Radio Telescope Test Delivers Image of the Moon
According to Futurism, the Green Bank Telescope had been upgraded with a new radio transmitter that was developed by military contractor Raytheon.
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This image from a prototype radio telescope system shows the moon’s Hadley C crater and the Hadley Rille, a canyon believed to be a collapsed lava tube. The area is also the landing site of the 1971 Apollo 15 mission. (COURTESY NRAO, GBO, RAYTHEON)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Imagine a radio telescope so powerful it can “see” high-resolution details of planets at the farthest reaches of our solar system.
After a two-year “proof of concept” test, scientists have demonstrated such an instrument using the powerful Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia as a transmitter, and the continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array, or VLBA, as a receiver.
Next Generation VLA Endorsed by Canadian Panel
Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/AUI/NSF
The Canadian Astronomy Long Range Plan 2020-2030, a report on priorities and recommendations for Canadian astronomy over the next decade, has recommended that Canada support the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO) proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA), saying the new facility will enable transformational science across many areas of astrophysics.
The ngVLA will be an array of 263 dish antennas reaching across North America. Both its sensitivity to faint objects and its resolving power ability to see fine detail will be 10 times greater than the current VLA. Building on the scientific and technical legacies of the VLA and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the ngVLA is being designed to provide the next major leap forward in our understanding of planets, galaxies, black holes, and the dynamic sky. The ngVLA’s capabilities will complement those of
Successful Test Paves Way for New Planetary Radar
Credit: NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI
The National Science Foundationâs Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Space conducted a test in November to prove that a new radio telescope system can capture high-resolution images in near-Earth space.
GBO’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia â the world’s largest fully steerable radio telescope â was outfitted with a new transmitter developed by Raytheon Intelligence & Space, allowing it to transmit a radar signal into space. The NRAO’s continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) received the reflected signal and produced images of the Apollo 15 moon landing site.
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MACEDONIA – At its first meeting of 2021 on Jan. 14, City Council ratified a three-year bargaining agreement with the International Association of Firefighters Local 3947 and approved a revised sign ordinance.
The firefighters contract covers the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, and provides for 2 percent salary hikes each year. One new section states fire personnel may not work more than 48 consecutive hours unless there is an ongoing emergency scene or with the fire chief’s approval.
Another new section states fire personnel who are mandated to work overtime on a designated holiday shall be compensated at two times the normal pay rate, and any mandated overtime work on a non-holiday shall receive 1.5 times the normal rate.