{"id":596171,"date":"2018-07-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ff3e2b66823deaf59d5566037b681698"},"modified":"2018-07-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:00:00","slug":"detecting-buried-water-with-radar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=596171","title":{"rendered":"Detecting buried water with radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/07\/detecting_buried_water_with_radar\/17617410-1-eng-GB\/Detecting_buried_water_with_radar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Mars Express has used radar signals bounced through underground layers of ice to identify a pond of water buried below the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows an example radar profile for one of 29 orbits over the 200 x 200 km study region in the south polar region of Mars. The bright horizontal feature at the top corresponds to the icy surface of Mars. Layers of the south polar layered deposits \u2013 layers of ice and dust \u2013 are seen to a depth of about 1.5 km. Below is a base layer that in some areas is even much brighter than the surface reflections, while in other places is rather diffuse. The brightest reflections from the base layer \u2013 close to the centre of this image \u2013 are centred around 193\u00b0E\/81\u00b0S in all intersecting orbits, outlining a well-defined, 20 km wide subsurface anomaly that is interpreted as a pond of liquid water.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_Express_detects_liquid_water_hidden_under_planet_s_south_pole\">More information <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/07\/detecting_buried_water_with_radar\/17617410-1-eng-GB\/Detecting_buried_water_with_radar_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA&rsquo;s Mars Express has used radar signals bounced through underground layers of ice to identify a pond of water buried below the surface.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image shows an example radar profile for one of 29 orbits over the 200 x 200 km study region in the south polar region of Mars. The bright horizontal feature at the top corresponds to the icy surface of Mars. Layers of the south polar layered deposits &ndash; layers of ice and dust &ndash; are seen to a depth of about 1.5 km. Below is a base layer that in some areas is even much brighter than the surface reflections, while in other places is rather diffuse. The brightest reflections from the base layer &ndash; close to the centre of this image &ndash; are centred around 193&deg;E\/81&deg;S in all intersecting orbits, outlining a well-defined, 20 km wide subsurface anomaly that is interpreted as a pond of liquid water.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Science\/Mars_Express\/Mars_Express_detects_liquid_water_hidden_under_planet_s_south_pole\">More information <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596172,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596171\/revisions\/596172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}