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Space Forum / Space Science / September 2005Mars Express
A couple of months ago, now, the ESA's Mars Express orbiter extended its antennas in preparation for doing a radar survey that was anticipated to reveal the presence of water beneath the Martian surface. Since then, I have heard nothing about it. Surely, enough time has passed for some preliminary results to be available. Has anyone here heard more? dow Once upon a time David Williams sat by the fire and begun to tell a story: > A couple of months ago, now, the ESA's Mars Express orbiter extended > its antennas in preparation for doing a radar survey that was [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > passed for some preliminary results to be available. Has anyone here > heard more? To my knowledge, the radar is producing data, but the interpretation is not as straight-forward as with images ("hey, look, there's a crater" vs. "hey, look, there's a layer rubble with ice within a rubble layer"). So it will take some time for the data to be presented. I'd expect the first results being published at LPSC 2006... But that's only my guess. The MEX info is updated every few weeks at: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html and MARSIS... though nothing new here since god-knows-when: http://www.marsis.com/ Cheers, Jarmo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jarmo Korteniemi * http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jkorteni * Planetology group, Astronomy, University of Oulu, Finland s-posti / email: jarmo DOT#1 korteniemi AT oulu DOT#2 fi puhelin / phone: +358 (45) 6362264 huone / room: TÄ215 (klo 12-20, ajoittain aiemminkin) --------------------------------------------------------------------  SignatureDo you believe in astrology? Jupiter exerts less gravitational influence over a human body than does an angry rhino less than two meters away... For a pretty good and understandable overview of MARSIS goals and procedures, see http://www.marsdaily.com/news/marsexpress-05zc.html Jarmo -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jarmo Korteniemi * http://www.student.oulu.fi/~jkorteni * Planetology group, Astronomy, University of Oulu, Finland s-posti / email: jarmo DOT#1 korteniemi AT oulu DOT#2 fi puhelin / phone: +358 (45) 6362264 huone / room: TÄ215 (klo 12-20, ajoittain aiemminkin) -------------------------------------------------------------------- SignatureDo you believe in astrology? Jupiter exerts less gravitational influence over a human body than does an angry rhino less than two meters away... |
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