Speaker: Yan Su

Affiliation: National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC)

Academic title: Professor

Honorary title: PI of Tianwen-2 GRAS

Abstract:

Chang’E-5 lander carried an instrument of the Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar (LRPR), which is the first antenna-array radar deployed for the investigation of an extraterrestrial body. Radar imaging results unveiled a hyperfine structure for the top 2.5-m-thick lunar regolith with an unprecedented high resolution of 5 cm.

Biography:

Yan Su is a Professor at the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences，deputy director of the Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration of the National Astronomical Observatories, and deputy chief designer of the Ground Application System. She has long been engaged in the field of radio astronomy technology and methods, lunar and planetary microwave detection, and satellite communications. She works on the ground test and data processing of the Chang’E-3/4/5 lunar penetrating radar, and Tianwen-1 Mars radar, as well as the development of large ground radio telescope and cryogenic receiver.