TY - JOUR
T1 - Science goals for a Mars polar-cap subsurface mission
T2 - Optical approaches for investigations of inclusions in ice
AU - Carsey, Frank
AU - Mogensen, Claus T.
AU - Behar, Alberto
AU - Engelhardt, Hermann
AU - Lane, Arthur L.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - The Mars polar caps are highly interesting features of Mars and have received much recent attention, with new and exciting data on morphology, basal units and layered outcroppings. We have examined the climatological, glaciological and geological issues associated with a subsurface exploration of the Mars North Polar Cap and have determined that a fine-scale optical examination of ice in a borehole, to study the stratigraphy, geochemistry and geochronology of the ice, is feasible. This information will enable reconstruction of the development of the cap as well as understanding the properties of its ice. We present visible imagery taken of dust inclusions in archived Greenland ice cores as well as in situ images of accreted lithologic inclusions in West Antarctica, and we argue for use of this kind of data for Mars climate reconstruction as has been successful with Greenland and Antarctic ice-core analysis.
AB - The Mars polar caps are highly interesting features of Mars and have received much recent attention, with new and exciting data on morphology, basal units and layered outcroppings. We have examined the climatological, glaciological and geological issues associated with a subsurface exploration of the Mars North Polar Cap and have determined that a fine-scale optical examination of ice in a borehole, to study the stratigraphy, geochemistry and geochronology of the ice, is feasible. This information will enable reconstruction of the development of the cap as well as understanding the properties of its ice. We present visible imagery taken of dust inclusions in archived Greenland ice cores as well as in situ images of accreted lithologic inclusions in West Antarctica, and we argue for use of this kind of data for Mars climate reconstruction as has been successful with Greenland and Antarctic ice-core analysis.
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U2 - 10.3189/172756403781816004
DO - 10.3189/172756403781816004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:1442360551
SN - 0260-3055
VL - 37
SP - 357
EP - 362
JO - Annals of Glaciology
JF - Annals of Glaciology
ER -