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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik
EP 7: Planets and small Objects I
EP 7.3: Talk
Thursday, April 2, 2020, 11:45–12:00, H-HS VIII
TRIPLE-IceCraft - A Retrievable Melting Probe for Transporting Scientific Payloads — •Dirk Heinen1, Lutz Deriks1, Christopher Wiebusch1, Simon Zierke1, Clemens Espe2, Marco Feldmann2, Gero Francke2, and Lars Schickendanz2 — 1RWTH Aachen University, III. Physikalisches Institut, Templergraben 55, 52056 Aachen — 2GSI - Gesellschaft für Systementwicklung und Instrumentierung mbH, Liebigstraße 26, 52070 Aachen
Within TRIPLE, initiated by the DLR Space Administration, Technologies for Rapid Ice Penetration and subglacial Lake Exploration are being researched. The TRIPLE scenario is divided into three components and aims to explore the subglacial ocean of the Jovian moon Europa. The first component is a melting probe which penetrates the icy shield and navigates to the ocean below. It anchors itself at the ice water boundary and releases the second component into the water: The nanoAUV, a small autonomous submarine, will explore the ocean, identify points of interests and take samples. The samples will be transported back to the melting probe and then processed and analysed by the AstroBioLab, the third component. We present the concept of the TRIPLE-IceCraft, a melting probe which is currently in development. It will be a modular bus system for transporting standardized payloads through ice. The current design will be suitable for the transport of a scientific payload through several hundred meters of ice penetrating into a subglacial ocean or lake and return later to the surface. For the demonstration the TRIPLE-IceCraft aims for an analog scenario at the Ekström Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2022.