Radar system (IMAGE)

Royal Astronomical Society

Radar system

Caption

Radar systems used by civilian airports (like this at Heathrow) and military operations are inadvertently revealing our existence to potential advanced alien civilisations because of the hidden electromagnetic leakage they emit.

Credit

Mick Lobb / Radar scanner - Heathrow / CC BY-SA 2.0

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