The experiment will pave the way for probing a larger asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029.
at asteroid 2010 XC15, a space rock that’s categorized as aEarth potentially hazardous asteroid.
. “Longer wavelengths can penetrate the interior of an object much better than the radio wavelengths used for communication.”. It’s made up of 180 high-frequency antennas, each standing at 72 feet tall and stretched across 33 acres. Thelocated about 50 to 400 miles above Earth’s surface. HAARP sends radio signals to the ionosphere and waits to see how they return, in an effort to measure the disturbances caused by the Sun, among other things.with 13 experiments, including one that involved bouncing signals off the Moon. At the time, HAARP researchers were
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