Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar

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Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar

lunar probe

Also known as: Mini-SAR

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Chandrayaan

In Chandrayaan
…Mineralogy Mapper (M³) and the Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR), which sought ice at the poles. M³ studied the lunar surface in wavelengths from the visible to the infrared in order to isolate signatures of different minerals on the surface. It found small amounts of water and hydroxyl radicals on…
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