Lynn Carter

You're seeing through that dust layer.

You can just see a lot more detail.

So this would be a really useful tool for Mars as well.

It's something that people are thinking about for future missions, but no one's really done it yet.

Okay, and so there's a lot of other possibilities that you could do too.

And hopefully, RIMFAX is the beginning of being able to just use ground penetrating radars or remote sensing tool in the way that people use it on Earth, so that it's not a strange thing to put a radar on an object.

They're pretty low,

low mass and also low power for these ones that you would put on rovers and so I have some friends at NASA who are investigating how astronauts could use it for example to look for hiding places or even just to see terrain that they're going to drill through so I think there's a lot of possibilities and I think radar will be a more common tool it was only invented in the 60s and I think to some extent people are still trying to understand how to use it and what the best ways to use it are

And so I think in the future it will be even more useful.

So anyway, that's my story about Sharad and all of the Mars radars, and I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Oh, yeah, he brought that in.

Meters, so yeah, a couple meters.

Not probably 20, yeah.

I think we're still a little bit uncertain because Sharad can't tell us that much actually about the very upper part of the surface.

So it's more just from looking at little craters and like other sources of evidence that we think that.

It's actually still seems like a daunting amount of material to people because how do you really remove that much overburden even if it's a couple meters like a lot.

I think that they just the nuclear power is just it's smaller and more compact and reliable and they're for this mission in particular they're basically just copying Curiosity as well so and it would also be important if you went to areas that were where you had to survive the winter longer because then it provides more heat and and stuff which originally we were thinking of some landing sites that would be farther to the south and farther away from the equator

But those ended up getting voted off, so we didn't need them.

Yeah, that's a great question.

That's actually what I'm doing right now for my research, is basically looking at Jezero crater and trying to see if we see anything.