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Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agusm.p51a..03o&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2004, abstract #P51A-03
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5460 Physical Properties Of Materials, 5462 Polar Regions, 5464 Remote Sensing, 5494 Instruments And Techniques, 6225 Mars
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SORA is part of a test programme of the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) in order to test the two penetrating radars that ASI has prepared for the Mars exploration. The first instrument is MARSIS on board of Mars Express ESA mission; the other is SHARAD for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter NASA mission. The SORA experiment will be dedicated to testing SHARAD. MARSIS has a strong penetration power (a few kilometers) and lower vertical resolution, whereas SHARAD will penetrate only several 100s meters but its data will have high-resolution range. SORA will consist of a stratospheric balloon flaying at about 35 km above sea level will carry the experiment. The balloon will carry a model of SHARAD with the electronics scaled to the experiment parameters. The balloon will be launched from Svalbard where the facility of the Italian base will be used. Simulations of the balloon trajectory show a circular shape with a landing area within 100 km from the launch pad. During the flight the balloon will get data from northern Greenland the Canadian Archipelago and part of northern Siberia and adjoining islands. The experiment will be able to investigate thick ice sheets, permafrost areas, seasonally snow covered zones and sea ice. This experiment will support the analysis of the SHARAD data and will provide some clues on the use of a similar instrument on the icy satellites.
Flamini Enrico
Marinangeli Lucia
Ori Gian Gabriele
Seu Roberto
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