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Incredible radar image of the moon was actually taken from Earth – Yahoo News Australia

A new transmitter fitted to the world’s largest steerable radio telescope captured an image of the Apollo 15 landing site by bouncing radio waves off the…

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The radar image of where Apollo 15 landed in 1971. The snake-like feature is Hadley Rille, a remnant of ancient volcanic activity, probably a collapsed lava tube. (NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/NSF/AUI)
A new transmitter fitted to the worlds largest steerable radio telescope has captured an incredible image of the Apollo 15 landing site by bouncing radio waves off the moon.
The radar tool could be used to capture incredibly detailed images of near-Earth objects such as asteroids, or moons orbiting other planets,…

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