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Mars Express Goes Underground -Update Dec 2005
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- Title Mars Express Goes Underground -Update Dec 2005
- Released: 29/11/2005
- Language English
- Footage Type Documentary
- Copyright ESA
- Description
Mars Express goes underground
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Since it deployed its antenna last June, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding instrument - MARSIS - on ESA's Mars Express orbiter has been providing unprecedented data on what lies beneath the surface of the red planet.
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The European Space Agency has presented the first MARSIS science results published in the magazine Science. They show that the radar can penetrate to depths of several kilometres, revealing - in one location - the presence of thick deposits of near pure water-ice.
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A basin, 250 km in diameter and buried 2.5 km deep, has also been discovered. Embedded in the structure, probably an impact crater, is a thick volume of ice-rich material.
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Science teams say MARSIS has fully demonstrated its capabilities and holds much promise - for a better understanding of Mars, and in many fields in planetary geology.
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Similar to radars on Earth, MARSIS bounces radio waves over selected areas, and then rece
- Length 13:35:00
- Format BETACAM
- Commercial Use No
- Producer Ingrid Van De Vijver
- Executive EBS/Watch TV