SUB-ICE EXPLORATION OF WEST LAKE BONNEY: ENDURANCE 2008 MISSION

ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) is a highly maneuverable, hovering autonomous underwater science platform descended from the DEPTHX vehicle, both of which were developed under NASA ASTEP funding. ENDURANCE had the specific mission of descending through...

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Main Authors: William C. Stone, Bartholomew Hogan, Christopher Flesher, Shilpa Gulati, Kristof Richmond, Aniket Murarka, Greg Kuhlman, Mohan Sridharan, Victoria Siegel, Rachel Middleton Price, Peter Doran, John Priscu
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Subjects:
Antarctic
Bonney
Lake Bonney
Taylor Glacier
Taylor Valley
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice cap
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.188.98
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7Eshilpa/publications/2009/stone-uust-09.pdf
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Summary:ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) is a highly maneuverable, hovering autonomous underwater science platform descended from the DEPTHX vehicle, both of which were developed under NASA ASTEP funding. ENDURANCE had the specific mission of descending through a 5 meter deep melt hole in the ice cap of West Lake Bonney, Taylor Valley, Antarctica and conducting three autonomous science tasks: 1) measuring the 3D water chemistry of the lake; 2) mapping the underwater face of Taylor Glacier where it enters the lake; 3) charting the bathymetry of the lake bottom; and then 4) returning safely on its own to the melt hole – barely

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