The International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission concept was developed by a multilateral team comprising space agencies from five countries: Canada, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and the …

Goal 1 is to map and characterize accessible, near-surface (within the uppermost 10 m) water ice and its overburden in mid-to-low latitudes to support planning for the first potential human …

• Anchor payload is a polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) • Tailored for detection of shallow subsurface ice and characterization of surface properties. Measurement Definition …

Here, we provide an update on the mission’s second phase of concept formulation, including a revised mission architecture and cross-cutting science and reconnaissance objectives.

Sampling by human missions (e.g., NASA First Ice Cores from Mars Report, 2021) would enable analyses of environmental records within the ice and the search for habitable environments …

The International Mars Ice Mapper Mission (I-MIM) is a mission concept being developed by the partner agencies: the Agenzia Spatiale Italiana (ASI), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the …

What approaches by the SAR, or in combination with existing data sets, would enable characterizing the “purity” (ice/ice-regolith mix) of the subsurface water ice?