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Old 14-October-2008, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by djellison View Post
ESA is like that, and SHARAD is technically, a European interloper on board MRO.
ESA is not "like that", the results from Mars Express are published as regularly and as quickly as those from any US mission.

For reasons I have already stated, processing and interpreting subsurface radar data takes a long time.

"Interloper" implies that SHARAD has no business on MRO. Why do you say this?

Jon
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