Ground Penetrating Radar- a Treasure Hunting Tool

Ground Penetrating Radar can be used for all kinds of applications- even Treasure Hunting! The professional application of Ground Penetrating Radar is a great tool when cutting, coring, drilling, or digging on a job site, but the practicality of the technology spans beyond construction, utility location and demolition. Metal detection hobbyists also utilize GPR technologies for subsurface imaging needs. Prospecting, beach combing, and other variations of metal detecting have a history of being a popular pastime in the United States and abroad and still interest many today. While the fundamentals of the activity remain unchanged, the equipment has diversified. Traditional...

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Ground Penetrating Radar to be used on NASA mission to Mars

  Ground Penetrating Radar is leaving the Earth for the first time! As the Mars Rover 2020 launch nears, exciting new details of the mission are being revealed. In less than four years NASA will send a space rover to Mars, and while this is not the first unmanned exploration of Earth’s neighbor, it will be the first mission to utilize Ground Penetrating Radar.  In addition to collecting soil and rock samples, the mission will utilize advanced GPR technologies to record subsurface data as it pertains to the geologic conditions of Mars. The mission to Mars in 2020 will focus...

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