{"id":185208,"date":"2024-03-15T20:06:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sparci-advancing-lunar-science-with-ground-penetrating-radar"},"modified":"2024-03-15T20:06:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T01:06:43","slug":"sparci-advancing-lunar-science-with-ground-penetrating-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/sparci-advancing-lunar-science-with-ground-penetrating-radar","title":{"rendered":"SPARCI: Advancing Lunar Science with Ground-Penetrating Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sparci-advancing-lunar-science-with-ground-penetrating-radar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How deep is the lunar regolith and megaregolith, the latter of which consists of the cracked lunar crust layers resulting from billions of years of impact craters? This is what the Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI, pronounced \u201csparky\u201d) instrument hopes to address as the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1037588\">recently awarded<\/a> a 3-year, $2,041,000 grant from NASA\u2019s Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI) program as part of advancing lunar exploration technologies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image of the Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI, pronounced \u201csparky\u201d). (Credit: Southwest Research Institute\/Bryan Pyke)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLearning more about the lunar megaregolith will help us gain a wider understanding of the Moon\u2019s formation and that of similar bodies with thin, sparse atmospheres,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swri.org\/press-release\/swri-receives-2-million-nasa-grant-develop-lunar-regolith-measuring-instrument\">said Dr. David Stillman<\/a>, who is a geophysicist at SwRI and SPARCI\u2019s principal investigator. \u201cIf we are able to pinpoint exactly where this layer begins, we can use that to create more accurate formation and evolution models.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How deep is the lunar regolith and megaregolith, the latter of which consists of the cracked lunar crust layers resulting from billions of years of impact craters? This is what the Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI, pronounced \u201csparky\u201d) instrument hopes to address as the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) was recently awarded a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,224,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-science","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}