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Marsis, an all Italian-made radar to find water on Mars

Darmstadt, Germany - Installed on the Mars Express probe, it will start analysing the planet's ground tomorrow

The Mars Express probe will start a pre-operational test stage of its Marsis (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding Instrument) radar beginning on May 4. This radar was developed by Alenia Spazio as requested by ASI (Italian Space Agency) and by the contribution of Rome "La Sapienza" University in order to analyse the planet’s ground to verify the presence of water. As endowed w...

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Rome, Italy, 05/03/2005 12:56
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