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Development and testing of a subsurface probe for detection of life in deep ice : [abstract]

  • We present the novel concept of a combined drilling and melting probe for subsurface ice research. This probe, named “IceMole”, is currently developed, built, and tested at the FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences’ Astronautical Laboratory. Here, we describe its first prototype design and report the results of its field tests on the Swiss Morteratsch glacier. Although the IceMole design is currently adapted to terrestrial glaciers and ice shields, it may later be modified for the subsurface in-situ investigation of extraterrestrial ice, e.g., on Mars, Europa, and Enceladus. If life exists on those bodies, it may be present in the ice (as life can also be found in the deep ice of Earth).

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Author:Bernd DachwaldORCiD, Changsheng Xu, Marco Feldmann, Engelbert Plescher, Ilya DigelORCiD, Gerhard ArtmannORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.21269/325
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Completion:2011
Publishing Institution:Fachhochschule Aachen
Contributing Corporation:Origins <2011, Montpellier>
Date of the Publication (Server):2012/10/26
Tag:subsurface ice research; subsurface probe
GND Keyword:Eisschicht; Sonde
Institutes:FH Aachen / Fachbereich Medizintechnik und Technomathematik
FH Aachen / Fachbereich Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik
FH Aachen / IfB - Institut für Bioengineering
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 55 Geowissenschaften, Geologie / 550 Geowissenschaften