Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

SJ Livingstone, Y Li, A Rutishauser… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Subglacial lakes are repositories of ancient climate conditions, provide habitats for life and
modulate ice flow, basal hydrology, biogeochemical fluxes and geomorphic activity. In this …

Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …

Multiple subglacial water bodies below the south pole of Mars unveiled by new MARSIS data

SE Lauro, E Pettinelli, G Caprarelli, L Guallini… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The detection of liquid water by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere
Sounding (MARSIS) at the base of the south polar layered deposits in Ultimi Scopuli has …

The scientific legacy of NASA's Operation IceBridge

JA MacGregor, LN Boisvert, B Medley, AA Petty… - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Operation IceBridge
(OIB) was a 13‐year (2009–2021) airborne mission to survey land and sea ice across the …

Assessing the role of clay and salts on the origin of MARSIS basal bright reflections

E Mattei, E Pettinelli, SE Lauro, DE Stillman… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Anomalously bright basal reflections detected by MARSIS at Ultimi Scopuli have been
interpreted to indicate the presence of water-saturated materials or ponded liquid water at …

Relevance of earth-bound extremophiles in the search for extraterrestrial life

L Carré, G Zaccai, X Delfosse, E Girard, B Franzetti - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
The recent discovery of extrasolar Earth-like planets that orbit in their habitable zone of their
system, and the latest clues of the presence of liquid water in the subsurface of Mars and in …

Multisystem synthesis of radar sounding observations of the Amundsen Sea sector from the 2004–2005 field season

W Chu, AM Hilger, R Culberg… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Amundsen Sea Embayment of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contains Thwaites
and Pine Island Glaciers, two of the most rapidly changing glaciers in Antarctica. To date …

Liquid water on cold exo-Earths via basal melting of ice sheets

L Ojha, B Troncone, J Buffo, B Journaux… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Liquid water is a critical component of habitability. However, the production and stability of
surficial liquid water can be challenging on planets outside the Habitable Zone and devoid …

Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON)

DD Blankenship, A Moussessian, E Chapin… - Space science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface
(REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Europa …

Martian mantle heat flow estimate from the lack of lithospheric flexure in the south pole of Mars: Implications for planetary evolution and basal melting

L Ojha, S Karimi, J Buffo, S Nerozzi… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Heat flow measurements are important for our understanding of planetary interior
composition, structure, and evolution. In the absence of direct measurement, a first‐order …