Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at May 9, 2005 02:25 PM

A European probe circling Mars has hit a snag in the deployment of a water-seeking radar instrument, prompting mission controllers to delay the experiment while engineers investigate the problem. Flight controllers for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express probe halted plans to deploy the second boom in a series of antennas that comprise the spacecraft’s subsurface radar instrument after detecting an anomaly on May 7, 2005.