Mars Orbiter Reaches Record Scanning Depth of 1.5 Kilometers
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Achieves Breakthrough in Probing Mars’ Interior Launched in 2005, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has made a technological breakthrough in studying the Red Planet’s subsurface. By performing experiments using extreme tilt angles, the SHARAD radar aboard the spacecraft has been able to “see” up to 1.5 kilometers deep—three times deeper than … Read more