Sharad Mission Overview – Mission to Mars

Following the ASI -NASA agreements of the SOI the AO-01-ASI-UPS- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 2005 has been issued by ASI on the 26th June 2001.

INFOCOM, the TL Institution, submitted the proposal

Subsurface Sounding SHAllow RAdar SHARAD

The EB quoted the Proposal as fully in compliance wrt the AO and of high scientific merit and to be fully funded.
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Sharad – Searching for Water on the Subsurface of Mars

The SHARAD (SHAllow RADar) is a radar sounder that will be used to explore the subsurface and surface of Mars in the context of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 2005 mission.

The subsurface sounding SHARAD can in principle detect liquid water and profile ice in the first few hundred meters of the subsurface with approximately 10 to 20 m vertical resolution (10 MHz bandwidth; 15 m resolution in free space). [Read more...]