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ICE 2002 - Iturralde Crater Expedition
A crater expedition team visited the Iturralde structure in the
Bolivian Amazon in September 2002.
The MagPlane UAV, carrying a Magnetometer, was part of the mission. The plan called for the platform to take-off 30-kilometers south-west of the crater, autonomously navigate to the crater site, map the crater and return to home base.
The MagPlane mission is unique;
- it is the first of its kind mission for a UAV
- the magnetometer used for mapping the crater is a space craft instrument and has never before been used for magnetic mapping of terrestrial structures
- data from the MagPlane mission will be available over the internet in near real-time
For more information about the MagPlane mission, please use links on the left.
For more information about the ICE 2002 expedition, please visit: http://www.blueiceonline.com/blueweb/ice2002.html
For detailed information on
the Flux Gate Magnetometer, please visit:
http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/Cluster/index.html
Landsat Image of the crater area.
The Iturralde Structure
The Iturralde structure was first identified in satellite images in
the mid-1980s. NASA scientists believe it is the youngest complex meteorite
crater on Earth. The crater is approximately eight kilometers across
and is located in the remote lowlands of Bolivia.
