Showing posts with label radar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radar. Show all posts

ISS in the X-band


Pretty Picture: ISS in the X-band - The Planetary Society Blog | The Planetary Society

This spooky-looking image is the international space station as taken by a radar satellite, the German TerraSAR-X.

I actually worked with these radar satellites, though they are now my natural enemies. The basic way they work is very clever, and with appropriate analysis, you can extract things like tiny movements of glaciers from the data.


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