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 by Staff Writers Paris (ESA) Aug 07, 2020
In a peninsula far, far away, a laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station. The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sensing technique that uses light to study an object. A pulsed laser beam is aimed at the target and properties of the resulting scattered light are recorded by sensors. Using these measurements, researchers collect information about the atmosphere, including density, temperature, wind speed, cloud formation and aerosol particles. LIDAR and SONAR (sonic detection and ranging) instruments help monitor the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, the 1 km thick bottom layer of the troposphere where changes on Earth's surface strongly influence temperature, moisture and wind. These changes to Earth's surface are largely caused by human activity. Increased greenhouse gas emissions are raising temperatures and the release of chlorofluorocarbons is thinning the ozone layer, particularly in the Polar Regions. The station operates two LIDAR instruments. The one imaged is the smaller of the two, located 500 m south of the station. A laser beam is emitted daily for one minute every five minutes during the winter period. Atmospheric physics and chemistry is one field of research undertaken at Concordia to assess the Antarctic climate and overall climate change. Concordia also runs biomedical studies as an analogue for space exploration. Each year ESA sponsors a research doctor to continue studies on the psychological, physiological and social effects of living in an isolated, confined and extreme environment.
First new AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar delivered for installation on USS Jack H. Lucas Washington DC (UPI) Jul 21, 2020 Raytheon announced Tuesday that it has delivered the first AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar array to Huntington Ingalls for installation on the Navy's future USS Jack H. Lucas guided-missile destroyer. "SPY-6 will change how the Navy conducts surface fleet operations," said Capt. Jason Hall, program manager for Above-Water Sensors for the U.S. Navy's Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems, in a press release from the contractor. "Our ships will be able to see farther, react quicker an ... read more
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