GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars
Bulletin of the AAS
By: 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, and Peter Bertone
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Abstract
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.
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Karunatillake, S., Bramson, A.M., Zacny, K., Dundas, C.M., Ojha, L., Aharonson, O., Vos, E., Hood, D.R., Rogers, A., Levy, J.S., Doran, P., Mandt, K., Wilson, J., Hughes, E.B., Fuqua-Haviland, H., Moersch, J., Perl, S.M., Haque, D.E., Skok, J.R., , H., Vijayan, S., Bhardwaj, A., Christner, B., Sizemore, H., Kereszturi, A., Schorghofer, N., Retherford, K., Niles, P., Lorenzo, J.M., Mesick, K., Franz, H., Rodriguez-Manfredi, J., Coupland, D., Bertone, P., 2021, GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars: Bulletin of the AAS, v. 53, no. 4, Whitepaper #357, 8 p., https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.a3d8d8e9.
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Federal Government Series |
| Title | GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars |
| Series title | Bulletin of the AAS |
| DOI | 10.3847/25c2cfeb.a3d8d8e9 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication Date | March 18, 2021 |
| Year Published | 2021 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | National Academy of Sciences |
| Contributing office(s) | Astrogeology Science Center |
| Description | Whitepaper #357, 8 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Report |
| Larger Work Subtype | Federal Government Series |
| Larger Work Title | Planetary science and astrobiology decadal survey 2023-2032 |
| Other Geospatial | Mars |