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Hop

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Re: MARSIS ready to work!

http://spacenews.dancebeat.info/article … ork]MARSIS ready to work!

MARSIS is part of ESA's Mars Express. It uses radar to probe Mars surface up to 5 kilometers deep. One of the things they hope to find is subsurface liquid water.

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Palomar

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Re: MARSIS ready to work!

*Yep.  And we've been following news/developments related to MARSIS at http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1569]this thread (Mars Express, Success!)  for quite some time.

--Cindy

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