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The Science objective is to utilize robotic-aided adaptive sampling to determine how the friction and erodibility of regolith admixtures are altered by gradients in surface crusts and lags, and ice content.
Close-up images of rock, snow and ice mixtures that the LASSIE Project team encountered at Mount Hood field site. | Image: Marion Nachon/LASSIE Project
Selected Publications
Downslope Weakening of Soil Revealed by a Rapid Robotic Rheometer
Ruck, J. G., Wilson, C. G., Shipley, T., Koditschek, D., Qian, F., and Jerolmack, D. Geophysical Research Letters 51, no. 1 (2024): e2023GL106468.
Unveiling the Mechanics of Frozen Frontiers with a Robotic Rheometer
Ruck, J., Bush, J., Caporale, J.D., Fulcher, E., Jones, N.A., Thompson, S., McKeeby, B., Fisher, K., Nachon, M., Koditschek, D.E., Ewing, R.C., Rivera-Hernandez, F., Shipley, T., Wilson, C.G., Qian, F., and Jerolmack, D.J., Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Woodlands, TX, 2024.
The Fragile Earth
D.J. Jerolmack, Invited Keynote Address for Soft Earth Geophysics Session, APS March Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2024.
Can Microbes Lithify Dunes? Investigating Extracellular Polymeric Substance Distribution in a Mars Analog Environment
N. A. Jones, J. C. Bush, Y. Zhang, B. E. McKeeby, R. C. Ewing, K. R. Fisher, D. J. Jerolmack, D. E. Koditschek, S. Liu, M. Nachon, F. Rivera-Hernandez, J. Ruck, T. F. Shipley, S. Thompson, C. Wilson, F. Qian, C. S. Edwards, A. M. Rutledge. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Woodlands, TX, 2024.
Downslope Weakening of Soil Revealed by a Rapid Robotic Rheometer
Ruck, J, Wilson, C.G., Shipley, T., Kodtischek, D., Qian, F., and Jerolmack, D.J., AGU Fall meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2023.
Using Legged Robots as Soil Rheometers: Understanding the Mechanical Behaviors of Granular Mixtures Related to Robotic Kinematics
Ruck, J., Qian, F., Wilson, C.G., Shipley, T.F., Koditschek, D.E., Jerolmack, D. (2022). AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2022.
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