The SORA Experiment: Testing the Subsurface Penetration Radar SHARAD on the Earth

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufm.p51g..02f&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P51G-02

Physics

0702 Permafrost (0475), 0726 Ice Sheets, 5464 Remote Sensing, 5494 Instruments And Techniques, 6225 Mars

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Two subsurface penetrating radars are currently working on Mars: MARSIS and SHARAD. MARSIS displays deep penetration and low resolution and SHARAD exhibits low penetration and high resolution. SHARAD is able to depicts relatively detailed internal features and stratal patterns. In order to fully understand the SHARAD capability, the data interpretations, and possible future developments the Italian Space Agency is organising an experiment to fly a SHARAD model in a stratospheric ballon. The experiment will consists in a no-space qualified model of SHARAD installed on a stratospheric balloon flying over the Arctic from the Spitsbergen. The fly will circumnavigate the Arctic passing over Greenland, the Canadian Arctic Arcipelago, New Zelmya and probably Spitsbergen itself. The fly altitude will be 35000 m and the cruise will last about a week. The investigated aareas includes ice sheets, glaciers, permafrost areas, plutonic to sedimentary rocks. And sedimentary natural environments. Sea ice will be probably too thin to be detected by the instrument. Frequency will be chosen to mimic the SAHARD ones. The experiment is planned for June 2007 with backup on September 2007 or June 2008.

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