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Mars Express radar deployment postponed
 
29 April 2004

MARSIS antenna
MARSIS main antenna during Mars Express payload tests. One of the two main radar booms is shown here, a 20-metre long hollow cylinder, of 2.5 centimetres diameter, folded up in a box like a concertina (accordion). When the box is opened, the elastic energy of the compressed glass-fibre booms will let them unfold like a jack-in-the-box.

Credits: Universität der Bundeswehr - München
 
 
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