Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night … Mars is not very hospitable! It’s for these extreme conditions that the research team of Christophe Craeye, a professor at the UCLouvain Louvain School of Engineering, developed antennas for the ‘LaRa’ measuring instrument (Lander Radioscience ), which will go to Mars in 2020.
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Source: Phys.org