CORE SAMPLING

Drilling for signs of life in Mars' subsurface

An insight into how both NASA and the ESA are preparing to drill below the surface of Mars

 To penetrate through Mars’ 20m of regolith and extract water from the planet’s ice deposits, HoneyBee Robotics has developed the Red Water system, which combines two proven terrestrial technologies: coiled tubing for drilling and Rodriquez Well for water ex-traction

To penetrate through Mars’ 20m of regolith and extract water from the planet’s ice deposits, HoneyBee Robotics has developed the Red Water system, which combines two proven terrestrial technologies: coiled tubing for drilling and Rodriquez Well for water ex-traction

While increasingly advanced drilling technologies have left a diminishing section of Earth's subsurface inaccessible to humankind, the surface of Mars has barely been scratched. This does not mean that...

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