Abstract
Mid-latitude shallow ice deposits are an abundant feature in Utopia Planitia confirmed by SHARAD georadar. Thick ice-rich subsurface makes establishing a temporal or permanent human presence on Mars more likely because water is within reach of existing sampling technologies and conceptual production mechanisms. Although such technologies have been studied, a comparison method is needed to quantify their projected results.Herein the paper presents geological and thermal model of icy regolith created to measure water sampling and production efficiency. Various regolith and volatile sampling systems are standardized and compared using efficiency factor ε. For production purposes, heat transfer is studied for down-hole and beamed energy sources, seeking for an effective heating radius for ice sublimation. Paper concludes with the chosen system for Martian subsurface water acquisition.
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