MARSIS MARSIS MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding) is a low frequency, pulse-limited radar sounder and altimeter developed by the University of Rome La Sapienza and Alenia Spazio (today Thales Alenia Space Italy). The Italian MARSIS instrument is operational on the European Space Agency, "Mars Express" orbiter mission. The MARSIS Principal Investigator is Giovanni Picardi from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy. It features ground-penetrating radar capabilities, which uses synthetic aperture techniques and a secondary receiving antenna to isolate subsurface reflections. MARSIS identified buried basins on Mars. MARSIS was funded by ASI (Italy) and NASA (USA). On
European University Centre European University Centre The European University Centre is a historical institute for European Studies part of Nancy 2 University. It was created in 1950 and it celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2000. For its 60th Anniversary in 2010, it also celebrated the 50th Anniversary of Alumni CEU (, ), which has become the main engine of this institute. The European Centre is located in Nancy, France. This city is located in Lorraine, which borders the countries of Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg as well as the French Region of Alsace. Nancy is very well served by the high-speed train line "TGV