Water Ice and Possible Habitability in the Landing Area of Tianwen-1 Mission

C Jiang, C Ding, Y Su, S Xing, J Li, S Dai - Space Science Reviews, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Tianwen-1 mission, marking China's inaugural venture into Mars exploration,
successfully deployed the Zhurong rover on Utopia Planitia. This review primarily focuses on …

[HTML][HTML] Range resolution enhancement of SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) data via bandwidth extrapolation technique: Enabling new features detection and improving …

MC Raguso, M Mastrogiuseppe, L Gambacorta… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) is a subsurface sounding radar provided by the
Italian Space Agency (ASI) as a facility instrument for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter …

RIMFAX ground penetrating radar reveals dielectric permittivity and rock density of shallow Martian subsurface

TM Casademont, S Eide, ES Shoemaker… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is equipped with the RIMFAX ground
penetrating radar instrument which has been continuously surveying the shallow subsurface …

Observations of Igneous Subsurface Stratigraphy during the Jezero Crater Floor Rapid Traverse from the RIMFAX Ground-penetrating Radar

ES Shoemaker, TM Casademont… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Perseverance traversed the eastern, northern, and western margins of the Séítah formation
inlier on the rover's western fan front approach. Mapping the stratigraphy and extent of the …

Exploring the dielectric loss of Martian regolith in the frequency domain using Zhurong radar data

J Sun, Y Feng, Y Cao, S Chen, Z Lei, Y Dong, M Xi… - Icarus, 2025 - Elsevier
Martian regolith is one of the primary science objectives of Mars exploration missions. The
Rover Penetrating Radar carried by Zhurong rover allows for high-resolution subsurface …

Assessing radar attenuation in RIMFAX soundings at the Jezero western fan front, Mars

S Eide, TM Casademont, ES Shoemaker… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of radar attenuation in the shallow Martian subsurface are retrieved from RIMFAX
soundings along the Perseverance rover traverse. Specifically, analyzed data is from the …

Surface Permittivity Estimation of Southern Utopia Planitia by High Frequency RoPeR in Tianwen-1 Mars Exploration

L Zou, H Liu, AM Alani, G Fang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
China's Tianwen-1 successfully landed in the southern Utopian Planitia of the Martian
surface on 15 May 2021. The Zhurong Rover, equipped with a high-frequency full …

Analysis of orbital sounding in context with in‐situ ground penetrating Radar at Jezero Crater, Mars

MC Raguso, DC Nunes, ES Shoemaker… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The RIMFAX ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) on Mars2020 Perseverance Rover is the first
GPR operated on the Martian surface since February 2021, searching for stratigraphy …

[HTML][HTML] FlyRadar–targets for future drone based GPR survey on Mars

A Kereszturi, GG Ori, NKD Marques, P Grandjean… - Acta Astronautica, 2025 - Elsevier
The possibility and feasibility of future drone-based shallow subsurface GPR radar survey
for Mars have been examined. SHARAD data indicates shallower features are expected to …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing heterogeneities in the subsurface with an ultra-wideband GPR: Application to WISDOM, the GPR of the Rosalind Franklin ExoMars mission

E Brighi, V Ciarletti, A Le Gall, D Plettemeier… - Planetary and Space …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultra-wideband Ground Penetrating Radars (GPR) are sensitive to a large range of
scatterer sizes. Considering fractal heterogeneities in the subsurface, we propose a method …