This mission used single-pass interferometry, which acquired two signals at the same time by using two different radar antennas.
The technology was modified for the SRTM mission to collect interferometric radar, which compared two radar images or signals taken at slightly different angles. The C-band Spaceborne Imaging Radar and the X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (X-SAR) hardware were used on board the space shuttle in April and October 1994 to gather data about Earth's environment. The radars used during the SRTM mission were actually developed and flown on two Endeavour missions in 1994. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) participated in an international project to acquire radar data which were used to create the first near-global set of land elevations. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) was flown aboard the space shuttle Endeavour February 11-22, 2000. At the end of the closing credits, as the afterimage of Ponch's Pearl Drop smile begins to fade from your retina, all you can think of is: "Man, that was a beautiful '71 Trans Am they blew up." In other words: Mindless eye candy with a wonderfully plastic '70s sheen.Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Non-Void Filled North of Juneau, Alaska(Public domain) Nothing of real emotional or dramatic depth ever happened. They seemed reasonably okay, as did all their identically dressed CHP colleagues, rescuing vapid motorists when they weren't comically discussing Ponch's impending hot date or the practical birthday joke they were planning to spring on John. These two suntanned, good-looking-in-a-70s-kind-of-way motorcycle cops were the viewers' guides through this wacky world of nonstop car crashes. Did I mention Ponch and John? Or rather Ponchenjohn? I almost forgot about them. Even if it's a diesel powered school bus (which by definition can't explode) it's gonna explode as soon as Ponch and John courageously escort the last bowl-haircitted '70s child to safety.
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Large, chrome laden '70s cars flipped through air, jumping *through* telephone poles, turned into piles of twisted sheetmetal, or even just sitting there on the asphalt broken down.somehow they'd ALWAYS end up exploding spectacularly (except when they'd land in someone's swimming pool.damn physics!) with disco-horror music on the TV speaker. All the impossiblly stupid motorists doing impossibly stupid things on the sunny LA freeways, invariably ending up in a bloodless, perfectly timed explosion of the said automobile's fuel tank, held me rapt.
The whole thing was so outrageously bad that I couldn't turn away. "CHiPs Patrol" as the syndicated reruns were tagged, played every day at 4 pm, in their scratchy 16mm glory, on our local NBC affiliate, and for a little car-fixated youngster like me, it was like.well, like a car crash played in slow-motion. This was one of the shows that made up my afternoon routine as a grade-schooler in the early to mid '80s.