#ground-penetrating radar

Exploring the Red Planet: Chinese rover provides comprehensive mapping of Martian subsurface

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China's Mars rover, Zhurong, has used ground-penetrating radar to map the subsurface of Mars, revealing shallow impact craters and other geologic structures in the top five meters of the planet's surface. China Zhurong to Mars on the Tianwen-1 mission which launched in 2020. The rover landed on the...

Ground-Penetrating Radar Maps Entire Ancient Roman City

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In a world-first, archaeologists have teamed up with Engineers to use ground-penetrating radar to map an ENTIRE ancient city while it’s still beneath the ground. The team created an initial map of an ancient Roman city 'Falerii Novi' located just 31 miles north of Rome from ground-penetrating radar...