article_snippet: But now, astronomers have combined the Green Bank Telescope with the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory the Arecibo Observatory to make remarkably detailed images of the planet's surface from Earth.
article_snippet: Pictured is a projection of the radar data of Venus collected in 2012.
article_snippet: The radar signals from Arecibo in Puerto Rico passed through both Earth's atmosphere and the atmosphere of Venus.
article_snippet: Here they hit the surface and bounced back to be received by the Green Bank Telescope in a process known as bistatic radar.
article_snippet: High-resolution radar images of Venus were first obtained by Arecibo in 1988 and most recently by Arecibo and GBT in 2012.
article_snippet: To take the stunning images, astronomers combined the Green Bank Telescope (right) in West Virginia with the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory (left) in Puerto Rico .
highlights_snippet: Astronomers took images with Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia .
  
highlights_snippet: Astronomers combined this with the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory .
  