Wednesday, September 10, 2008

What Is Up with Mercury?

In the lab, we sent a radio wave to Mercury, and got signals back.

a.) for the rotation rate of Mars, this means that, by sending radio signals out, we can calculate the rotation rate of Mars by figuring out the distance in between signals.
b.) the closer the planet, the more intense the radio waves are going to be.
c.) the five slices of data mean that we can gather more information about Mercury and it's rotation rate, and then be able to understand the universe more.

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