Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Synthetic Aperture Radar Sar |
A radar technique used, for example, by the Magellan mission to Venus, in which the echoes from radar pulsars emitted at a rate of thousands per second are processed by computer to generate a detailed picture of the structure of the reflecting surface.
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