MARSIS Subsurface Sounding Observations of the South Polar Region of Mars

Jeffrey Plaut (1) , Giovanni Picardi (2) , Andrea Cicchetti (2) , Stephen Clifford (3) , Peter Edenhofer (4) , William Farrell (5) , Costanzo Federico (6) , Alessandro Frigeri (6) , Essam Heggy (3) , Alain Hérique (7) , Anton Ivanov (1) , Rolando Jordan (1) , Wlodek Kofman (7) , Carlton Leuschen (8) , S. Milkovich (1) , Jeremie Mouginot (7) , Erling Nielsen (9) , R. Orosei (10) , Elena Pettinelli (11) , Roger Phillips (12) , Dirk Plettemeier (13) , Ali Safaeinili (1) , Roberto Seu (2) , Ellen Stofan (14) , Giuliano Vannaroni (15) , Thomas Watters (16) , I. Williams (17)

1 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2 Dipartimento INFOCOM [Roma]
3 LPI - Lunar and Planetary Institute [Houston]
4 Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
5 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
6 Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
7 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie de Grenoble
8 APL - Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD]
9 MPS - Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
10 IASF-Roma - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica cosmica - Roma
11 Dipartimento di Fisica
12 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [St Louis]
13 Fakultaet fuer Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik
14 Proxemy Research Inc
15 IFSI - Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario
16 CEPS - Center for Earth and Planetary Studies [Washington]
17 AU - Astronomy Unit [London]

The MARSIS radar sounder on Mars Express completed a comprehensive mapping campaign of the south polar region. The radar signal typically penetrates to the base of the layered deposits. Terrain outside of the classic layered deposits also exhibits layering in the radar data.

Jeffrey Plaut, Giovanni Picardi, Andrea Cicchetti, Stephen Clifford, Peter Edenhofer, et al.. MARSIS Subsurface Sounding Observations of the South Polar Region of Mars. Fourth International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration, 2006, Davos, Switzerland. pp. 2. ⟨insu-00358807⟩