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on 25 Mar 2024 02:50
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“RedWater has proven to be the right architecture for deep drilling on Mars,” said Kris Zacny, vice president of the exploration technology group at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California.
For example, earlier this year, observations by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe suggested that layers of water ice stretch several miles below ground in some places on the planet.
They’re now wrapping up a third phase of the SWIM work, which explicitly aimed to help establish targeting priorities for the prospective International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission concept.
Once in hand, that information can definitively identify and characterize buried ice at landing-site scales for broad regions across the mid-latitudes of Mars, Putzig added.
The legged stationary spacecraft plopped down on the planet farther north than any previous mission, at a latitude equivalent to that of northern Alaska, then scooped up Martian soil and checked for — and found — water ice.
“For the foreseeable future, it will have to be done by robots on Mars, probably over long periods, requiring extra levels of robustness, which adds cost, and some power source that we don’t have yet,” Smith said.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
“RedWater has proven to be the right architecture for deep drilling on Mars,” said Kris Zacny, vice president of the exploration technology group at Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California.
For example, earlier this year, observations by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe suggested that layers of water ice stretch several miles below ground in some places on the planet.
They’re now wrapping up a third phase of the SWIM work, which explicitly aimed to help establish targeting priorities for the prospective International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission concept.
Once in hand, that information can definitively identify and characterize buried ice at landing-site scales for broad regions across the mid-latitudes of Mars, Putzig added.
The legged stationary spacecraft plopped down on the planet farther north than any previous mission, at a latitude equivalent to that of northern Alaska, then scooped up Martian soil and checked for — and found — water ice.
“For the foreseeable future, it will have to be done by robots on Mars, probably over long periods, requiring extra levels of robustness, which adds cost, and some power source that we don’t have yet,” Smith said.
The original article contains 1,063 words, the summary contains 187 words. Saved 82%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!