P027
Passing Through Purgatory: Architectures, Technologies, and Considerations for Accessing Ocean World Interiors
Session ID#: 74457
Session Description:
The icy interiors and oceans of Ocean Worlds are of great astrobiological potential, and may provide unique insight into the geologic and geochemical evolution of planetary ice formations. Many key questions regarding the geodynamic state of icy crusts, the distribution of thermal and mechanical ice properties with depth, interior chemistry, physics of ocean-ice interaction, and potential for life are best answered through in situ analysis. Recognizing that ocean access technologies are reaching sufficient maturity to enable missions in the coming decades, the planetary science community is beginning to explore multiple avenues for ice and ocean access, including drills, waterjets, melt-probes, crevasse crawlers, and submersibles. In this session we welcome studies related to ice penetration and ocean access on all Ocean Worlds, including Earth, that illuminate potential science and instrumentation, subsurface exploration, and of particular interest, ongoing architecture and technology development efforts for enabling subsurface exploration.
Index Terms:
0728 Ice shelves [CRYOSPHERE]
6221 Europa [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6282 Enceladus [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6297 Instruments and techniques [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Samuel M Howell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners: Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics, Exploration Technology Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, Christine Mccarthy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Patrick James Gasda, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison: Samuel M Howell, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
How (not) to lose communication with your submersible on Europa: An experimental study for characterizing the shear performance of tethers under confinement in ice (491548)
Vishaal Singh, Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, Christine Mccarthy, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Kathleen Craft, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States, Christopher R German, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Michael Jakuba, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States, Ralph D Lorenz, JHU / APL, Laurel, MD, United States, G Wesley Patterson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Matthew Walker, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
OrganiCam: A lightweight time-resolved fluorescence imager and Raman spectrometer for icy world organic detection and characterization (510945)
Roger C Wiens1, Patrick James Gasda2, Anupam K Misra3, Shiv K Sharma4, Heather Marie Quinn2, Kumkum Ganguly5, Raymond T Newell6, Samuel M Clegg2, Sylvestre Maurice7 and Cedric Virmontois8, (1)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (6)Charleston, SC, United States, (7)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (8)CNES, Toulouse, France
Exploring Ice-Covered Oceans, Top to Bottom: Experiences in the Arctic with NUI(5k) (518431)
Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Andrew Bowen, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Michael Jakuba, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst., Woods Hole, MA, United States, Antje Boetius, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany, Vera S N Schlindwein, Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, Germany, Stefan Bünz, CAGE — Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate, Department of Geosciences, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Eva Ramirez Llodra, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Oslo, Norway and Cruise Research Teams for Polarstern PS86 (2014), Polarstern PS101 (2016) & Hacon Frinatek KPH708 (2019)
Subglacial Antarctic Lakes: What they tell us about the exploration of Ocean Worlds Beyond Earth (Invited) (522912)
John C Priscu1, Rohit Bhartia2, Michael Malaska2, Evan J Eshelman3, William Abbey2, Kris Zacny4, Wei Li1, Kevin P Hand2, Alexander B Michaud5, Brad E Rosenheim6, Mark L Skidmore7, Trista Vick-Majors8 and the WATSON AND SALSA SCIENCE TEAMS, (1)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Science, Bozeman, MT, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States, (4)Honeybee Robotics, Exploration Technology Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (6)University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (7)Montana State Univ, Earth Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (8)Michigan Technological University, Biological Sciences, Houghton, MI, United States
The Cryobot Descent Simulator (524557)
Miles W Smith1, Michael Durka2, Richard Otis1, Michael Ullman2 and Thomas A Cwik1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Environmental Test Results for a Direct Laser Cryobot for Ocean World Missions (527415)
William Stone1, Bartholomew Hogan1, Kristof Richmond1, Victoria Louise Siegel2, Scott Lelievre1, Justin Smith1, Chris Flesher1, Josh Moor3 and Alberto Lopez1, (1)Stone Aerospace, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Sisu Field Solutions LLC, Austin, TX, United States, (3)Stone Aerospace, Del Valle, TX, United States
SLUSH: Search for Life Using Submersible Heated Drill (543018)
Joey Palmowski1, Bolek Mellerowicz1, Kris Zacny1, Kevin P Hand2, Christophe Sotin2, Samuel M Howell2, Thomas A Cwik2, Juergen Mueller2, Bethany L Ehlmann3, Seiichi Nagihara4, Mike Tipton5 and Stef Liller5, (1)Honeybee Robotics Pasadena, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Texas Tech Univ, Lubbock, TX, United States, (5)Integrity Communications Solutions, Colorado Springs, United States
A Cryobot for Melting, Cutting and Water-jetting through the Icy Crust of Ocean Worlds (550565)
Thomas A Cwik, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Miles W Smith, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Kris Zacny, Honeybee Robotics, Exploration Technology Group, Pasadena, CA, United States and Dale P Winebrenner, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
Reaching Depths of Kilometers in Cold Ice with Small Melt Probes, by Managing Melt-Hole Refreezing (560520)
Dale P Winebrenner1, Benjamin H Hills2 and W. Timothy Elam1, (1)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Shining Light on Purgatory: Detection Limits for Exploring Ocean Worlds Using a Compact Standoff Raman and Fluorescence Spectrometer (Invited) (562549)
Macey Sandford1, Anupam K Misra2, Shiv K Sharma3, Paul G Lucey4 and Tayro Acosta-Maeda3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)Hawaii Inst Geophys & Planetol, Honolulu, HI, United States
Project THOR: Design and Testing of a Full-Scale CCHWD Cryobot (603990)
Victoria Siegel, William Stone, Bartholomew Hogan, Kristof Richmond, John Harman, Scott Lelievre, Justin Smith, Chris Flesher and Alberto Lopez, Stone Aerospace, Austin, TX, United States
A Notional Mission Architecture for Enabling Near-Term Scientific Ocean Access Missions on Icy Worlds (612005)
Jean-Pierre Fleurial1, Samuel M Howell2, David Woerner1, Damon Landau3, Jeremiah B Gayle3, Miles W Smith4, Juergen Mueller2, Terry J Hendricks3, Scott N Roberts3, Bill J Nesmith3, Scott H Bryant3, Yoseph Bar-Cohen3, Emily Klonicki3, William C West3, Benjamin J Hockman3 and Brian Gregory Clement5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Biotechnology and Planetary Protection, Pasadena, CA, United States
Thermal Modeling of Ice Penetrators for Ocean Worlds (621812)
Bart Hogan1, Kristof Richmond1, William Stone1, Paula do Vale Pereira1,2, Alberto Lopez1 and Kerri Cahoy2, (1)Stone Aerospace, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Massachusetts Inst of Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
Planetary Protection for accessing the oceans of icy satellites (626119)
Brian Gregory Clement1, Jean-Pierre Fleurial2, Samuel M Howell3, Terry J Hendricks4, Emily Klonicki4 and David Woerner2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Evaluation and Integration of Potential Instruments for Subsurface Ocean Worlds Missions (626821)
Emily Klonicki1, Brian Gregory Clement2, Richard Kidd1, Marianne Gonzalez1, Jean-Pierre Fleurial3, David Woerner3, Terry J Hendricks1 and Samuel M Howell4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Biotechnology and Planetary Protection, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
