EnEx, European Enceladus Explorer (initial phase) |
EnEx, European Enceladus Explorer (initial phase) |
May 5 2015, 12:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1643 Joined: 5-March 05 From: Boulder, CO Member No.: 184 |
I just came across this today. An "Ice Mole" test has recently been successfully performed, drilling through 16m of ice in Antarctica to water underneath.
http://www.dlr.de/dlr/presse/en/desktopdef...#/gallery/18546 -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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May 5 2015, 05:33 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 78 Joined: 20-September 14 Member No.: 7261 |
The DLR press release seems a bit... don't know how i should call it, "beneficial to DLR"? All that DLR is involved with in regard to this project is managing a federal R&D grant.
There are six German universities involved; FH Aachen, the one mentioned, is developing and testing an under-ice autonomous navigation payload (which, in addition to inertial navigation, seems to work with ultrasound beacons on the surface, developed by TU Braunschweig). The University of the Bundeswehr at Munich is developing a mission scenario for Enceladus. The "Ice Mole" per se is preexisting technology. See also http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/conte...ler.cfm?id=4122 |
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