GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars

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

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GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars

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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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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. 2021-03-18. GANGOTRI mission concept on the glacial key to the Amazonian climate of Mars. https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.a3d8d8e9

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