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CryoScout: A Descent Through the Mars Polar CapCryoScout was proposed as a subsurface investigation of the stratigraphic climate record embedded in Mars North Polar cap. After landing on a gentle landscape in the midst of the mild summer season, CryoScout was to use the continuous polar sunlight to power the descent of a cryobot, a thermal probe, into the ice at a rate of about 1 m per day. CryoScout would probe deep enough into this time capsule to see the effects of planetary obliquity variations and discrete events such as dust storms or volcanic eruptions. By penetrating tens of meters of ice, the mission would explore at least one of the dominant "MOC layers" observed in exposed layered terrain.
Document ID
20040085646
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hecht, M. H.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Saunders, R. S.
(NASA Headquarters Washington, DC United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Publication Information
Publication: Third International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Distribution Limits
Public
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