Search Results - "Smith, Miles W.E."

Constraints on the behavior of a descending ice probe due to force balance by Cassler, Bailey, Smith, Miles W.E., Durka, Michael J., Furst, Benjamin I., Hockman, Benjamin J., Ullman, Michael J.

“…Water is a key ingredient to the potential for life, and several icy moons, such as Europa and Enceladus, are thought to harbor a dynamic subsurface ocean of…”
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Modeling a class of thermal ice probes for accessing the solar system’s ocean worlds by Durka, Michael J., Smith, Miles W.E., Ullman, Michael J., Cassler, Bailey, Otis, Richard, Cwik, Thomas A., Hockman, Benjamin J., Barry, Matthew M.

“…The subsurface oceans of icy moons in the outer solar system are prime candidates for harboring extra-terrestrial life. Missions to melt through the ice shells…”
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Experimental Validation of Cryobot Thermal Models for the Exploration of Ocean Worlds by do Vale Pereira, Paula, Durka, Michael J., Hogan, Bartholomew P., Richmond, Kristof, Smith, Miles W. E., Winebrenner, Dale P., Elam, W. Timothy, Hockman, Benjamin J., Lopez, Alberto, Tanner, Neal, Moor, Joshua, Ralston, James, Alexander, Miriam, Zimmerman, Wayne, Flannery, Nolan, Kuhl, William, Wielgosz, Sarah, Cahoy, Kerri L., Cwik, Thomas A., Stone, William C.

“…Accessing the potentially habitable subsurface waters of Ocean Worlds requires a robotic ice probe (or “cryobot”) to traverse tens of kilometers of ice with…”
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