HR: 17:15h
AN: P14B-06 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Radar Sounding at Decameter Wavelengths: Applying the lessons learned at Mars to the investigation of icy bodies
AU: * Safaeinili, A A
EM: ali.safaeinili@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech, M/S 300-319GA, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
AB: Following the pioneering radar sounding results from the Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment (ALSE) and recently the two successful Mars Advanced Radar Sounder for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) and Shallow Radar (SHARAD) radar sounders at Mars, it is evident that radar sounders can provide unique information about the interior of icy bodies. The next target for the radar sounder are the icy moons of Jupiter and/or Titan and possibly Earth. In this talk, we will provide a background on MARSIS and SHARAD instruments and provide representative examples from both instruments. Finally, the relevance of lessons learned from these two instruments to future sounding mission to icy bodies will be discussed.
DE: 0738 Ice (1863)
DE: 6023 Comets: dust tails and trails (6210)
DE: 6024 Interiors (8147)
DE: 6205 Asteroids
DE: 6221 Europa
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting