1st Edition

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater

Edited By Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Kris Zacny Copyright 2021
374 Pages
by CRC Press

374 Pages
by CRC Press

374 Pages
by CRC Press

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies. The chapters cover drill types, drilling techniques and their advantages and associated issues, rock coring including acquisition, damage control, caching and transport, and data... Read more
Chapter 1 Extraterrestrial Drilling and Excavation........................................................................1

Kris Zacny, et al.

Chapter 2 Novel Methods for Deep Ice Access on Planetary Bodies........................................215

William Stone, Vickie Siegel, Bart Hogan, Kristof Richmond, Corey Hackley, John Harman, Chris Flesher, Alberto Lopez, Scott Lelievre, Krista Myers, and Nathan Wright

Chapter 3 Scientific Rationale for Planetary Drilling................................................................247

H. M. Sapers, L. W. Beegle, C. M. Caudill, E. Cloutis, J. Dickson, and P. Hill

Chapter 4 Biological Contamination Control and Planetary Protection

Measures as Applied to Sample Acquisition.............................................................313

James N. Benardini, Moogega Stricker, and Kasthuri J. Venkateswaran

Biography

Dr. Yoseph Bar-Cohen is the Supervisor of the Electroactive Technologies Group (http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/) and a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab/Caltech, Pasadena, CA.   In 1979, he received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.  His research is focused on electro-mechanics including planetary sample handling mechanisms, novel actuators that are driven by such materials as piezoelectric and EAP (also known as artificial muscles) and biomimetics.


Dr. Kris Zacny is a Senior Research Scientist, Vice President and Director of Exploration Technology Group at Honeybee Robotics. His expertise includes terrestrial and extraterrestrial robotic drilling, excavation, sample handling and processing, geotechnical systems, and sensors. Dr. Zacny received his PhD (UC Berkeley, 2005) in Geotechnical Engineering with an emphasis on Mars drilling, ME (UC Berkeley, 2001) in Petroleum Engineering with emphasis on Drilling and Materials Science, and BSc cum laude (U. Cape Town, 1997) in Mechanical Engineering.