Initial results of the Netlander imaging ground-penetrating radaroperated on the Antarctic Ice Shelf

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Berthelier, Jean-Jacques, Bonaimé, S., Ciarletti, Valérie, Clairquin, R., Dolon, F., Le Gall, Alice, Nevejans, D., Ney, Richard, Reineix, Alain
• Other Authors: Centre d'étude des environnements terrestre et planétaires (CETP), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy / Institut d'Aéronomie Spatiale de Belgique (BIRA-IASB), OSA, XLIM (XLIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CNES (grants 793/CNES/99/7947 and 737/CNES/00/8261)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2006
• Subjects: [SPI.SIGNAL]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Signal and Image processing; [SPI.ELEC]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electromagnetism; [INFO.INFO-TS]Computer Science [cs]/Signal and Image Processing; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00159138; https://hal.science/hal-00159138/document; https://hal.science/hal-00159138/file/Berthelier_et_al-2005-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL024203

The objective of the Netlander mission was to land 4 small geophysical stations on the surface of Mars to study the deep interior, subsurface, surface and atmosphere of the planet. Included in the payload was a ground penetrating radar (GPR) designed to retrieve not only the distance but also the direction of the reflectors, thus providing a simplified 3D imaging of the subsurface. In this paper we report initial results obtained during the RANETA campaign on the Antarctic ice shelf. Data from two soundings of the ice-bed rock interface are analyzed, demonstrating the capability of the radar to disentangle echoes from different reflecting facets of the bed rock.