An Analogical Experiment of Mars Rover Penetrating Radar Onboard Chinese “Zhurong” Martian Rover on Dry/Water Ice Detection

LIU Hai; LI Jianhui; MENG Xu; ZHOU Bin; FANG Guangyou

doi:10.11999/JEIT211286

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LIU Hai, LI Jianhui, MENG Xu, ZHOU Bin, FANG Guangyou. An Analogical Experiment of Mars Rover Penetrating Radar Onboard Chinese “Zhurong” Martian Rover on Dry/Water Ice Detection[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(4): 1336-1342. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211286

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LIU Hai, LI Jianhui, MENG Xu, ZHOU Bin, FANG Guangyou. An Analogical Experiment of Mars Rover Penetrating Radar Onboard Chinese “Zhurong” Martian Rover on Dry/Water Ice Detection[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(4): 1336-1342. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211286

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LIU Hai, LI Jianhui, MENG Xu, ZHOU Bin, FANG Guangyou. An Analogical Experiment of Mars Rover Penetrating Radar Onboard Chinese “Zhurong” Martian Rover on Dry/Water Ice Detection[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2022, 44(4): 1336-1342. doi: 10.11999/JEIT211286

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An Analogical Experiment of Mars Rover Penetrating Radar Onboard Chinese “Zhurong” Martian Rover on Dry/Water Ice Detection

doi: 10.11999/JEIT211286

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Civil Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China
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Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China (41874120, 51978182, 5202010500), Funding by Science and Technology Projects in Guangzhou (20210201444), Shenzhen Science and Technology Program (KQTD20180412181337494)

Received Date: 2021-10-30
Accepted Date: 2022-03-15
Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-11

Available Online: 2022-03-16

Publish Date: 2022-04-18

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Abstract

On May 22, 2021, China's first Mars Rover "Zhurong" began its exploration on Mars surface. One of the payloads is Mars Rover Penetrating Radar (RoPeR), which composes of a high frequency channel and a low frequency channel. The scientific object of RoPeR is to reveal the subsurface structures of landing site and detect potentially buried water/dry ice. The high frequency channel is equipped with four Vivaldi antennas working at the frequency band of 0.45～2.15 GHz, which can record radar echo in four different polarization channels. An analogical experiment is performed to analyze the reflection signals from a dry ice and a water ice samples. The experimental results show that dry ice and water ice have different polarization scattering characteristics and $ H - \alpha $ polarization decomposition can discriminate between dry ice and water ice.
- Tianwen-1 probe,
- Mars Rover Penetrating Radar (RoPeR),
- Ice detection,
- Polarization decomposition

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