RIMFAX (Q42317746)
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ground-penetrating radar on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover
- Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment
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ground-penetrating radar on the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover |
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Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (English)
RIMFAX (English)
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Prosjektet ble finansiert av midler fra Norsk Romsenter og den europeiske romorganisasjonen ESA. (Norwegian Bokmål)
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Prosjektet ble finansiert av midler fra Norsk Romsenter og den europeiske romorganisasjonen ESA. (Norwegian Bokmål)
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Co-I on WISDOM and RIMFAX GPRs
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She has used the Arecibo radar system to study Venus, the Moon and asteroids, is Deputy PI of the Mini-RF radar on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and is a Co-I on the SHARAD on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, REASON on the NASA Europa Mission and RIMFAX on the Mars2020 rover. (English)
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2014-present Science Co-I, Mars 2020, Radar Imager for Mars Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) (English)
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RIMFAX will probe beneath the planet’s surface to study its geology in detail, and its deputy principal investigator is David Paige, a UCLA professor of planetary science. (English)
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Next summer, #NASA's Mars2020 rover will launch from Florida with @RIMFAX2020 , a Norwegian instrument with a Canadian Co-I, Rebecca Ghent (University of Toronto)! (English)
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... sa Henning Dypvik, geolog ved CENSSS og en av dem som skal jobbe med Rimfax. (Norwegian Bokmål)
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Currently, he conducts science operations for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is the Investigation Scientist and Co-I of the SHARAD radar sounder at Mars, and the Investigation Scientist for the development of the RIMFAX ground-penetrating radar instrument that will be flown on the Mars 2020 rover. (English)
Mars2020 Project as the Investigation Scientist for the Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Exploration (RIMFAX) instrument (2015 - Present) (English)
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December 2021
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19 April 2021
Nasielski joined RIMFAX this year through an invitation from UCLA department of earth, planetary and space sciences professor David Paige, who serves as RIMFAX deputy principal investigator. ... His main responsibility involves helping the team analyze the data being transmitted from Mars. (English)
My role is to assess downlink data to ensure health of instrument, and prepare sequences for instrument activities and measurements. (English)
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RIMFAX Science Operation Center (English)
Professor Svein-Erik Hamran og hans team styrer georadaren Rimfax ombord på roveren Perseverance som nå samler inn prøver på Mars. ... Hamran bobler over av entusiasme der han sitter nesten alene i bygget som huser Universitetet i Oslos nye Centre for Space Sensors and Systems (CENSSS) ved siden av Forsvarets forskningsinstitutt (FFI) på Kjeller. (Norwegian Bokmål)
The University of Oslo controls RIMFAX, from the Centre for Space Sensors and Systems (CENSSS) located in Kjeller. (English)
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Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) developed the Radar, known as RIMFAX, in collaboration with the other Norwegian companies KONGSBERG, COMROD and Inventas. (English)
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Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) developed the Radar, known as RIMFAX, in collaboration with the other Norwegian companies KONGSBERG, COMROD and Inventas. (English)
Underneath the Perseverance rover is a unique piece of technology from Norway — a Comrod antenna. (English)
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Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) developed the Radar, known as RIMFAX, in collaboration with the other Norwegian companies KONGSBERG, COMROD and Inventas. (English)
Bakkeradaren RIMFAX inneholder en skreddersydd zignalbehandlings Chip laget av Inventas AS (tidligere Bitvis AS). (Norwegian Bokmål)
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TR Fastenings Norway received this commission from the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), which won a bid with NASA to design and build the Mars Rover’s Radar Imager. (English)
TR Fastenings Norway, part of Trifast PLC, is pleased to have been asked to supply essential rivets and tools for a Radar Imager for the new NASA Mars Exploration Rover which launches in 2020. (English)
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Numerical simulations are carried out with gprMax (Warren et al. 2016) employing a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm (Yee 1966) for simulating the propagation of radar waves in three dimensions through complex media. (English)
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Svein-Erik Hamran - Principal Investigator - University of Oslo, Kjeller, Norway (English)
PI – Svein-Erik Hamran (FFI, Norway) (English)
31 July 2014
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NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before (English)
The Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX), a ground-penetrating radar that will provide centimeter-scale resolution of the geologic structure of the subsurface. The principal investigator is Svein-Erik Hamran, the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Norway. (English)
Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX)
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11 August 2017
RIMFAX to Mars
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Wikipedia(4 entries)
- cswiki Radar Imager for Mars' subsurface experiment
- enwiki RIMFAX
- eswiki Radar Imager for Mars Subsurface Experiment
- jawiki RIMFAX