An illustration of the new radar system being developed by National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the Green Bank Observatory.According to the new decadal survey by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, one of the best tools to help protect the planet against the impact of near-Earth objects likeThe decadal survey, in which researchers look ahead for the next ten-plus years, calls for the further development of radar systems to aid inby imaging newly discovered NEOs.
Such duties might’ve once been assigned to the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, once the world’s most powerful radar system and radio telescope. But AreciboThe NRAO and the GBO, however, were already in the midst of upgrading the Very Long Baseline Array in Hawaii and the
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