"We'd like radar vectors back around, " the pilot said, according to the recordings.

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Despite the advent of GPS, radar technology and 3-D computer software, an exquisitely hand-drawn map and carefully collected data often can outdo what a couple of whiz kids can find on a laptop.

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The latest 3-D maps, painstakingly pieced together from radar data collected by numerous spacecraft passes, have already changed scientists' notions: The channels are deeper than expected, a sign that flooding was more extensive than generally believed.

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"It's my guess that only about half of the UK's christian churches will be ready for 1 October, but I'd say it's on most people's radar, " said Mr Dicken.

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Down the road from UCSD, 30-foot screens at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography project geomorphic data obtained from radar, sonar and satellites, combined into a single 3-D image.

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Today, Putin said he'd be okay with U.S. missile defense plan if it use the radar system that already exists in Azerbaijan instead of building a new one in the Czech Republic.

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Using a ground-piercing radar sensor aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a team of scientists created 3-D maps of an equatorial region known as Elysium Planitia and the channels that run underneath the plains.

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We'd spend hours hiking up beautiful mountains, only to find ourselves surrounded by cellphone towers or military radar installations, and have to go back to the drawing board.

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