The European Space Agency (ESA) will conduct a mission to Mars during the 2003 launch opportunity, called Mars Express. Much of the payload is similar to that of the failed Mars 96 orbiter, but a completely new instrument has been selected for the payload, the Subsurface Sounding Radar/Altimeter (SSRA). The SSRA experiment is a joint project between the University of Rome, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Alenia Aerospazio, Italy. This paper describes the science objectives of the experiment, the instrument characteristics, and applications of the SSRA investigation to studies of the martian polar regions.


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    Title :

    The Mars Express Subsurface Radar: Water and Ice Detection in the Polar Regions


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    Publication date :

    1998-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English