GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars
April 30, 2021
The GANGOTRI mission concept would investigate in situ the geologic origins of midlatitudinal Martian glaciers, as underlain by Amazonian climate evolution, by riddling the ice with a hybrid thermo-mechanical drill for deep englacial sampling. GANGOTRI would use regolith compositional measurements to characterize ice-regolith interaction, and stable isotope measurements to characterize fundamental exchange processes of major ice reservoirs. Meanwhile, geophysical observations would cross-calibrate composition.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Title | GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars |
| DOI | 10.3847/25c2cfeb.a3d8d8e9 |
| Authors | Suniti Karunatillake, Ali M Bramson, Kris Zacny, Colin M. Dundas, Lujendra Ojha, Oded Aharonson, Eran Vos, Don R Hood, A. Deanne Rogers, Joseph S. Levy, Peter Doran, Kathleen Mandt, Jack Wilson, Emily B Hughes, Heidi Fuqua-Haviland, Jeffrey Moersch, Scott M. Perl, Dewan E. Haque, J. R. Skok, Harish, S. Vijayan, A. Bhardwaj, Brent Christner, Hanna Sizemore, A Kereszturi, Norbert Schorghofer, Kurt Retherford, Paul Niles, Juan Manuel Lorenzo, Katherine Mesick, Heather Franz, Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi, Daniel Coupland, Peter Bertone |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Publication Subtype | Federal Government Series |
| Series Title | Bulletin of the AAS |
| Index ID | 70212602 |
| Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |
| USGS Organization | Astrogeology Science Center |