Cryosphere – Extrem Conditions
- Designed to operate in harsh conditions, cold or heat
- Provides transportable research units for in-situ research
- Research Units are dropped off and picked up
- Robot and local rover allow mobility even if the astronaut cannot leave the research lab due to adverse conditions
- The two labs can either operate together or be dropped of at different place
- Each lab comes equipped with a ground radar (large black dish) which can operate in different modes
- Together to increase scan depth, swath and/or resolutions in case the research units are deployed at the same locations
- As transmitter and receiver unit, e.g. if research stations are deployed far apart
- Currently on permanent assignment on alpha-1 however occasionally summed to operate on inner asteroids or comets when they pass the inner planets
- Stand-alone as a ground / ice radar to investigate local ice conditions and identify pocket of valuable minerals as well as organics, materials within in the ice layers