Mars Express Radar Begins Work After Deployment Delays

Scientists are sifting the first returns from the sounding radar on Europe's Mars Express orbiter to calibrate which came from the surface and which are subsurface data. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (Marsis) is designed to peer as deep as 5 km. (3.1 mi.) beneath the...

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