Sentences with phrase «penetrating radar instrument»

These data were from an ice - penetrating radar instrument known as the Multichannel Coherent Depth Sounder / Imager, or MCoRDS / I, which is similar to the instrument IceBridge has used since 2009.

The scarps directly expose bright glimpses into vast underground ice previously detected with spectrometers on NASA's Mars Odyssey (MRO) orbiter, with ground - penetrating radar instruments on MRO and on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, and with observations of fresh impact craters that uncover subsurface ice.

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The European Space Agency's Mars Express satellite has used ground - penetrating radar in some areas to look for a water table but found no evidence for one, despite research that concluded any water would be found within 9 kilometres of the surface — well within the reach of the probe's instruments.

The MCoRDS / I instrument can be traced back to an early ice - penetrating radar CReSIS designed and built in the mid-90s in cooperation with NASA and NSF.

Mars Express» antenna booms form the probe's Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument, a ground - penetrating radar designed to peer beneath the red planet's surface and scan for deposits of water orRadar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument, a ground - penetrating radar designed to peer beneath the red planet's surface and scan for deposits of water orradar designed to peer beneath the red planet's surface and scan for deposits of water or ice.

But Juno's cloud - penetrating radar should provide insight into Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere and what the GRS's structure is like deep inside the storm, while other instruments study the planet's interior structure and magnetosphere.