Exploring the interior of Europa with the Europa Clipper

JH Roberts, WB McKinnon, CM Elder, G Tobie… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Galileo mission to Jupiter revealed that Europa is an ocean world. The Galileo
magnetometer experiment in particular provided strong evidence for a salty subsurface …

Radar for Europa assessment and sounding: ocean to near-surface (REASON)

DD Blankenship, A Moussessian, E Chapin… - Space science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface
(REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Europa …

Crystal orientation fabric anisotropy causes directional hardening of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream

TA Gerber, DA Lilien, NM Rathmann, S Franke… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The dynamic mass loss of ice sheets constitutes one of the biggest uncertainties in
projections of ice-sheet evolution. One central, understudied aspect of ice flow is how the …

Shear margins in upper half of Northeast Greenland Ice Stream were established two millennia ago

D Jansen, S Franke, CC Bauer, T Binder… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Only a few localised ice streams drain most of the ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet. Thus,
understanding ice stream behaviour and its temporal variability is crucially important to …

Taking a look beneath the surface: Multicopter UAV-based ground-penetrating imaging radars

A Grathwohl, M Stelzig, J Kanz, P Fenske… - IEEE Microwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The field of multicopter unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has seen massive technological
advances and decreasing costs over the last decade. Due to the higher prevalence and …

Worldwide version-controlled database of glacier thickness observations

E Welty, M Zemp, F Navarro, M Huss… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Although worldwide inventories of glacier area have been coordinated internationally for
several decades, a similar effort for glacier ice thicknesses was only initiated in 2013. Here …

Science objectives for flagship-class mission concepts for the search for evidence of life at Enceladus

SM MacKenzie, M Neveu, AF Davila, JI Lunine… - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Cassini revealed that Saturn's Moon Enceladus hosts a subsurface ocean that meets the
accepted criteria for habitability with bio-essential elements and compounds, liquid water …

Antarctic sedimentary basins and their influence on ice‐sheet dynamics

ARA Aitken, L Li, B Kulessa, D Schroeder… - Reviews of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of Antarctica's sedimentary basins builds our understanding of the
coupled evolution of tectonics, ice, ocean, and climate. Sedimentary basins have properties …

Ice mass loss sensitivity to the Antarctic ice sheet basal thermal state

EJ Dawson, DM Schroeder, W Chu, E Mantelli… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Sea-level rise projections rely on accurate predictions of ice mass loss from Antarctica.
Climate change promotes greater mass loss by destabilizing ice shelves and accelerating …

Development of a drone-based ground-penetrating radar system for efficient and safe 3D and 4D surveying of alpine glaciers

B Ruols, L Baron, J Irving - Journal of Glaciology, 2023 - cambridge.org
Recent research has highlighted the potential for high-resolution, high-density, 3D and 4D
ground-penetrating radar (GPR) acquisitions on alpine glaciers. When carried out on foot …