2005  Mission Artwork

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's SHARAD instrument over south polar region

 

 

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's SHARAD instrument over south polar region

The orbiter's shallow radar experiment "SHARAD" is designed to probe the internal structure of Mars' polar ice caps, as well as to gather information planet-wide about underground layers of ice, rock and, perhaps, liquid water that might be accessible from the surface. The SHARAD antennae appear as two white lines on the spacecraft.

Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, appears in the upper left corner.

 

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