Sentences with phrase «subsurface radar instrument»
Flight controllers for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft's subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7.
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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.
In April, an Italian radar instrument will search for vast reservoirs of subsurface ice, following up on hints from NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
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.