Simulated Water Well Performance on Mars
This paper describes improvements in our understanding of the nature and location of massive ice sheets on the surface of Mars as well as refinements made to a technical approach for extracting significant quantities of water from these ice sheets using a technique known as a Rodriguez Well. Recentl...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20180007948 2023-05-15T13:37:20+02:00 Simulated Water Well Performance on Mars Hoffman, Stephen J. Andrews, Alida D. Watts, Kevin D. Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available September 17, 2018 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180007948 unknown Document ID: 20180007948 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20180007948 Copyright, Public use permitted CASI Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration JSC-E-DAA-TN60334 AIAA Space and Astronautics Forum (AIAA SPACE Forum 2018); 17-19 Sep. 2018; Orlando, FL; United States 2018 ftnasantrs 2019-07-20T23:08:22Z This paper describes improvements in our understanding of the nature and location of massive ice sheets on the surface of Mars as well as refinements made to a technical approach for extracting significant quantities of water from these ice sheets using a technique known as a Rodriguez Well. Recently published discoveries on Mars have reinforced the evidence for the existence and structure of these massive buried ice sheets. Using this improved understanding of the feedstock material, this paper describes estimates made regarding basic characteristics - mass, power, configuration, etc. - of a system that can access and extract water from these ice sheets. This paper then summarizes the basic operation of a Rodriguez Well and describes a computer simulation used to estimate the performance characteristics of this type of well. This simulation was built and used to predict the performance of similar wells operated in the Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions. However, physical parameters (e.g., specific heat and gas constant for air, heat transfer between water and air and between ice and air, etc.) used in the simulation represent a terrestrial environment and must be adjusted for a Martian environment. A pair of experiments designed to determine the appropriate values for these parameters under Martian conditions is described. Until results from these experiments are available, published results from other sources are used in the simulation to gain an understanding of the effect that could be seen. These provisional results are discussed. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic Arctic NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Antarctic Arctic Rodriguez ENVELOPE(-56.720,-56.720,-63.529,-63.529) |
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This paper describes improvements in our understanding of the nature and location of massive ice sheets on the surface of Mars as well as refinements made to a technical approach for extracting significant quantities of water from these ice sheets using a technique known as a Rodriguez Well. Recently published discoveries on Mars have reinforced the evidence for the existence and structure of these massive buried ice sheets. Using this improved understanding of the feedstock material, this paper describes estimates made regarding basic characteristics - mass, power, configuration, etc. - of a system that can access and extract water from these ice sheets. This paper then summarizes the basic operation of a Rodriguez Well and describes a computer simulation used to estimate the performance characteristics of this type of well. This simulation was built and used to predict the performance of similar wells operated in the Earth's Arctic and Antarctic regions. However, physical parameters (e.g., specific heat and gas constant for air, heat transfer between water and air and between ice and air, etc.) used in the simulation represent a terrestrial environment and must be adjusted for a Martian environment. A pair of experiments designed to determine the appropriate values for these parameters under Martian conditions is described. Until results from these experiments are available, published results from other sources are used in the simulation to gain an understanding of the effect that could be seen. These provisional results are discussed. |
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