Today's society relies heavily on an invention taken for granted: radar. Just about everybody uses radar, whether they realize it or not. Tens of thousands of lives rely on the precision and speed of radar to guide their plane through the skies unscathed. Others just use it when they turn on the morning news to check the weather forecast.         While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has not been …showed first 75 words of 947 total…

…showed last 75 words of 947 total…and in the sky. On the ground, we track planes, weather, ships, and many Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. From space, we use satellites with radar to map the globe, spy on foreign countries, and track over the oceans. In each instance, radar plays a key role in our day-to-day lives. Bibliography Hitzeroth, Deborah. Radar: The Silent Detector, 96 pp., ills., Lucent Books, 1990. Page, Irving H. 'RADAR,' The New Book of Popular Science, pgs. 246-253, Grolier Inc. 1994.