Exploring Titan's subsurface: Insights from Cassini RADAR and prospects for future investigations

P He, C Ding - New Astronomy Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Although the Ku-band Cassini RADAR was not primarily designed to probe Titan's
subsurface structure, it unexpectedly provided valuable data on penetration, notably …

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 …

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 …

Martian ground penetrating radar: Towards automated diffraction detection for dielectric permittivity

TM Casademont, H Dypvik, S Eide… - … on Geoscience and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The dielectric permittivity is a crucial parameter in planetary ground penetrating radar (GPR)
missions such as the RIMFAX radar on the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover. It describes the …

Impact response of physical analog of Martian regolith

V Ziborov, T Rostilov, E Kronrod, I Kuznetsov… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
A careful examination of collisional processes occurring on surfaces of Solar System objects
requires data on the dynamic properties of porous geological materials. Shock waves …

Mars rover penetrating radar modeling and interpretation considering linear frequency modulation source and tilted antenna

S Zhong, Y Wang, Y Zheng, L Chen - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has been extensively utilized in deep-space exploration.
However, GPR modeling commonly employs simplified antenna models and carrier-free …

[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 …

Research on lunar regolith of the Chang'E-4 landing site: An automated analysis method based on deep learning framework

J Deng, Y Qian, F Cui, Y Liu, J Lai - Icarus, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract On January 3, 2019, the Chang'E-4 lander successfully landed within the Von
Kármán crater, located in the South P ole-Aitken Basin (SPA) on the farside of the Moon …

Maximum Likelihood Data Fusion with Optimal Similarity Constraints for Full-Polarimetric RoPeR Imaging of Martian Regolith

H Zhou, X Feng, Z Dong, C Liu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Zhurong rover of the Chinese Tianwen-1 mission is equipped with a Mars rover
penetrating radar (RoPeR). The high-frequency CH-2 antenna adopts a full-polarimetric (FP) …