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    Radio occultation (RO) is a remote sensing technique used for measuring the physical properties of a planetary atmosphere or ring system. Satellites carrying...
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    eclipse. The symbol for an occultation, and especially a solar eclipse, is (U+1F775 🝵).[not verified in body] The term occultation is most frequently used...
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  • Bibcode:1996JBAA..106...92T. Walt "Rob" Robinson. "OCCULTATION OF PLANETS BY MOON". The International Occultation Timing Association. Gonzalez, Guillermo (September...
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    carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and...
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    Ionosphere (category Radio frequency propagation)
    ion-neutral collision frequency across the ionospheric dynamo region. Radio occultation is a remote sensing technique where a GNSS signal tangentially scrapes...
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    closed-loop one-way format at a sampling frequency of one hertz and the occultation geometry was such that the proximate ray path from the spacecraft to...
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  • can be tilted up to +20° along track. Radio Occultation Sounder of the Atmosphere (ROSA) is a new GPS occultation receiver provided by Italian Space Agency...
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    data a day. The primary payload for the COSMIC-2 satellites is the Radio Occultation instrument. This instrument is capable of measuring atmospheric effects...
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    CICERO-6 (Community Initiative for Continuing Earth Radio Occultation) was a CubeSat designed and operated by GeoOptics, Inc. It was the first launched...
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    dust, solar plasma, trapped radiation, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, radio occultation and celestial mechanics Status: Mariner 3 – Malfunctioned. Derelict...
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    leading to the origin of life". In May 2005, Cassini began a series of radio occultation experiments, to measure the size-distribution of particles in Saturn's...
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  • Autoantigen Ro, a protein Ro (volume), an Egyptian unit of measurement Radio occultation, a technique for measuring the properties of an atmosphere Reactor...
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    to study the Venus atmosphere using signals from the Akatsuki in a radio occultation experiment. In 2017, ISRO made an 'Announcement of Opportunity' (AO)...
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    perform remote sensing without forming pictures, such as in GNSS radio occultation. The first occurrence of satellite remote sensing can be dated to...
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    Radiosonde (redirect from Radio-sonde)
    Richard; Zerihun, Ayalsew; Bui, Luyen K. (16 September 2022). "GNSS Radio Occultation Infilling of the African Radiosonde Data Gaps Reveals Drivers of Tropopause...
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  • satellites reportedly use the Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) to collect atmospheric data for weather prediction and for...
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    system. The Galileo orbiter performed three radio occultation events of Europa, where the probe's radio contact with Earth was temporarily blocked by...
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    grazing lunar occultation (also lunar grazing occultation, lunar graze, or just graze) is a lunar occultation in which as the occulted star disappears...
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  • started working on Spire's own Global Navigation Satellite System Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) payload, enabling the company to constantly collect highly...
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    space surrounding Mars, televised images of the Martian surface and radio occultation data of spacecraft signals as affected by the Martian atmosphere back...
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    structure of Saturn's atmosphere by infrared observations coupled with radio occultation data. Obtain spin-scan images of the Saturnian system in two colors...
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    surface treatments. Other measurements that could be made included: Radio occultation Celestial mechanics based on precision tracking Mariner 4 was also...
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    the U.S. payload instruments, the microwave radiometer and the GNSS radio occultation receiver provides launch services for both satellites provides ground...
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    Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding: global navigation satellite systems radio occultation) HIRS (High Resolution Infrared Sounder) IASI (Infrared atmospheric...
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    billion years. The Cassini UVIS team, led by Larry Esposito, used stellar occultation to discover 13 objects, ranging from 27 meters (89') to 10 km (6 miles)...
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    Lindal, Gunnar F. (1992). "The atmosphere of Neptune – an analysis of radio occultation data acquired with Voyager 2". Astronomical Journal. 103: 967–82....
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    from satellites after they have descended below the horizon, as in radio occultation measurements. The ability of GRIN lenses to have flat surfaces simplifies...
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  • original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 21 March 2023. "Ariane 6 launches: NASA's radio detective CURIE". www.esa.int. Retrieved 22 June 2024. "Ariane 6 launches...
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  • whether the dust is interplanetary or coming from Phobos or Deimos. Radio Occultation experiment (RO): It will measure neutral and electron Density profiles...
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    Pluto (category Objects observed by stellar occultation)
    474 mi) on July 24, and later to 2374±8 km. Using radio occultation data from the New Horizons Radio Science Experiment (REX), the diameter was found to...
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