Performance Data of an Ice-Melting Probe from Field Tests in two Different Ice Environments ...

• Main Authors: Feldmann, Marco, Francke, Gero, Espe, Clemens, Chen, Qian, Baader, Fabian, Boxberg, Marc S., Sustrate, Anna-Marie, Kowalski, Julia, Dachwald, Bernd
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Ice Melting; Melting Probe; Melting Performance; Melting Efficiency; Analogue Environments; Cryobot; Icy Moons; Ocean Worlds; Taylor Glacier; Blood Falls; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6094866; https://zenodo.org/record/6094866

This dataset was acquired at field tests of the steerable ice-melting probe "EnEx-IceMole" (Dachwald et al., 2014). A field test in summer 2014 was used to test the melting probe's system, before the probe was shipped to Antarctica, where, in international cooperation with the MIDGE project, the objective of a sampling mission in the southern hemisphere summer 2014/2015 was to return a clean englacial sample from the subglacial brine reservoir supplying the Blood Falls at Taylor Glacier (Badgeley et al., 2017, German et al., 2021). The standardized log-files generated by the IceMole during melting operation include more than 100 operational parameters, housekeeping information, and error states, which are reported to the base station in intervals of 4 s. Occasional packet loss in data transmission resulted in a sparse number of increased sampling intervals, which where compensated for by linear interpolation during post processing. The presented dataset is based on a subset of this data: The penetration ... : We gratefully acknowledge support through the Explorer Initiatives of the DLR Space Administration funded through the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag (50NA1206, 50NA1908, 50NA2009). ...