[Baps] Marco Mastrogiuseppe speaking at MIT tomorrow (Tuesday) @ 12:30

[Jason Soderblom]

Marco Mastrogiuseppe (Cornell University) will be visiting MIT’s planetary department tomorrow and will be giving a talk titled, “Sounder Data analysis for Planetary Exploration”.

Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Green building room 517, MIT (54-517)

Sounder Data analysis for Planetary Exploration
Radar sounders are a valuable tool for planetary exploration and have been used to probe the subsurface of planets and moons. Some examples are MARSIS and SHARAD which are currently operating on Mars and have been able to detect subsurface structures at depths of up to a few km under the surface. Another example is given by the Lunar Radar Sounder (LRS) on board the Japanese Kaguya Mission. Future radar sounders include REASON and RIME that will study the subsurfaces of the ice-crusted Galilean moons. Recently, the Cassini RADAR has been used as a sounder to probe the depth and constrain the composition of hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Herein, we present the results of data processing and analysis applied to Cassini RADAR and SHARAD. On Titan, recent sounding observation over the large seas have revealed their depth and composition. On Mars, a novel technique applied to parallel orbit tracks of SHARAD data can be used to suppress surface clutter and enhance the resolution and sensitivity of sub surfacing imaging.

About the Speaker
Marco Mastrogiuseppe is a Research Associate at Cornell University. His research interests include the study of planetary sensors with particular attention to issues related to radar altimetry. In these areas he has been involved in SHARAD project (SJHAllow RADar), to explore the planet Mars with a radar sounder part of the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and Cassini project, to expore the Saturnian system with a radar altimeter operating in Ku-band.


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