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This image is an artist's concept of a view looking down on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.  The SHARAD radar antenna - a silver-colored, long, pole-like feature - juts out horizontally from the boxy bus of the spacecraft.  The bus, covered in reflective gold thermal blanketing, is flanked by its two large rectangular solar panels.  Above the spacecraft bus is the large circular high-gain antenna that is the conduit for transmitting and receiving data.  Emanating from the SHARAD antenna are smoky, circular rings that represent the radar at work,
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its SHARAD radar (top view)

This image is an artist's concept of a view looking down on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The spacecraft is pictured using its SHARAD radar to "look" under the surface of Mars.

The SHARAD instrument will seek liquid or frozen water within the first few hundred feet (up to a kilometer) under the martian surface.

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