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Enabling Technologies
Activities that will be conducted to recover samples, data, observations, and information to address the scientific questions include:
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entry (ice drilling, sterilization, maintaining the integrity of the borehole);
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emplacement of observatories (data transmission, power, sensor development);
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sample collection and return (clean techniques, contamination control, minimal disturbance); and
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protocols, methodologies and techniques to analyze samples.
These activities translate into enabling technologies such as:
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seismic instrumentation,
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rapid access mobile ice drill rigs,
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“clean” drilling and sampling technologies,
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autonomous and cabled observatories with sensors,
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in situ sampling devices, (v) high-pressure culturing techniques, and
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genomic technologies and libraries specific to microorganisms known to inhabit extreme environments.
Environmental as well as scientific requirements are a fundamental consideration when developing enabling technologies. Planning activities, have increasingly refined the technological requirements for accomplishing the scientific objectives. These requirements become increasingly challenging as the objectives grow in complexity.
......, Remote Observations, Models, Entry Technologies, In Situ Observations, and Sediment Cores