Can you tell me what the acronym for radar stands for?
2023-06-26
This is what goPenpal answered
Sure! "RADAR" stands for "Radio Detection and Ranging". It's a system developed for detecting and locating the presence, direction, distance, and speed of objects-- predominantly in aviation, marine and meteorology fields. It achieves this by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are then reflected off the object back to the source. Funnily enough, it's like a bat's echo-location, but instead of using sound, it uses radio waves! Just another example of us clever humans borrowing ideas from the natural world.
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