Goldstone Solar Radar's Record
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After the Arecibo collapse in 2020, a lone NASA radar dish in the Mojave desert stepped up as a leading asteroid hunter
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NASA 's Goldstone Solar System Radar has detected 55 Near-Earth Asteroids in 2024 .
Radar can help scientists better understand the structure and composition of the asteroids as they buzz by Earth .
Asteroids are leftover bits from the dawn of the solar system, and have the potential to reveal information about those formative years .
Goldstone was the first of three instruments that today make up NASA 's Deep Space Network .
The first observation of an asteroid using a radar telescope was made of asteroid ( 1566 ) Icarus in 1968 .
More than 40 missions have depended on the network, and it is expected to support twice that number in the coming years .
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