I just got this in on an e-mail from NASA.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has extended the long-armed antenna of its radar, preparing the instrument to begin probing for underground layers of Mars.
The orbiter’s Shallow Subsurface Radar, provided by the Italian Space Agency, will search to depths of about one kilometer (six-tenths of a mile) to find and map layers of ice, rock and, if present, liquid water.
Does this not make you shudder? We are, indeed, exploring the Solar System. I remember, clearly, the day that Alan Shepard got blasted into space in a Mercury Capsule. Mapping underlayers of Mars rocks my mind.
Learn more at the Mars Shallow Subsurface Radar web site.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, “Ground-Piercing Radar on NASA Mars Orbiter Ready for Work.” E-mail to Author.19 Sep 2006.
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David: Based on your title and the comment, “doesn’t this make you shudder,” I was thinking that you were going to continue on about the Italian Space Agency supplying the subsurface radar for an American orbiter…the flat world makes it to outer space….
I was expecting to hear that they received a signal from the planet — but I’ll settle for the magic of exploration and discovery.
That says it all, Bud!
David – You talk about preparing students for a world that we cannot imagine. Do you suppose that the children of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s or maybe even a few from the 80’s who helped to develop the technology for this, could ever have imagined they’d be working on a project such as this? And now that we are exploring the solar system, the students we’re working with today could likely one day be a part of some project that takes us even farther into space. I remember watching the first steps on the moon on television in a day when I never could have imagined sitting with a computer on my lap and having conversations with people all over the world. Mind boggling….
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