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The technology does exist it's called radar, and there is already a mission on the books (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE) which will take just such an
by InclinedPlane 8y ago
The technology does exist it's called radar, and there is already a mission on the books (the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE) which will take just such an instrument to Jupiter and its moons in the early 2020s.
P.S. There's also Europa Clipper, but the funding is less certain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper
- Sharlin 8y agoRadar has also been used to map underground ice deposits on Mars, see eg. [1][2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARAD [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARSIS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARSIS