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Radio waves snap a picture of Apollo 15 landing site picture all the way from Earth – ZME Science
This may be a game changer in astronomy.
New radar image of the Apollo 15 landing site, located with respect to prominent lunar features. Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO/GBO/Raytheon/AUI/NSF/USGS.
This might look like your typical space photo, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. This stunning image of the Apollo 15 landing site wasn’t taken by an optical instrument, such as a camera, but rather by a radar telescope that bounced radio waves off the surface of the moon.
In the image, we can see Hadley Rille, the meandering channel…
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