Electromagnetic Sounding of Solid Planets and Satellites
Author(s):
Robert Grimm
Co-Author(s):
N/A
Panel Selection:
Inner Planets: Mercury, Venus, and the Moon.Mars: Not Phobos and Deimos.Satellites: Galilean satellites, Titan, and the other satellites of the giant planets.Primitive Bodies: Asteroids, comets, Phobos, Deimos, Pluto/Charon and other Kuiper belt objects, meteorites, and interplanetary dust.
Institution:
Southwest Research Institute
EM methods can sense subsurface structure from meters to a thousand kilometers. This white paper gives a tutorial on material sensitivities, exploration depths, sources, and particularly what measurements must be made for different target bodies, without specific mission endorsements.
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