Environments, needs and opportunities for future space photovoltaic power generation: A review

A Bermudez-Garcia, P Voarino, O Raccurt - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper aims to assess the potential and requirements of photovoltaic arrays to provide
energy for more than 30 mission types to explore 14 celestial bodies in our solar system …

Exploring the composition of Europa with the upcoming Europa Clipper mission

TM Becker, MY Zolotov, MS Gudipati… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, harbors a subsurface liquid water ocean; the prospect of this
ocean being habitable motivates further exploration of the moon with the upcoming NASA …

Battery-free wireless imaging of underwater environments

SS Afzal, W Akbar, O Rodriguez, M Doumet… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Imaging underwater environments is of great importance to marine sciences, sustainability,
climatology, defense, robotics, geology, space exploration, and food security. Despite …

The role of organic aerosol in atmospheric ice nucleation: A review

DA Knopf, PA Alpert, B Wang - ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
Predicting the formation of ice in the atmosphere presents one of the great challenges in
physical sciences with important implications for the chemistry and composition of the …

Evidence of a plume on Europa from Galileo magnetic and plasma wave signatures

X Jia, MG Kivelson, KK Khurana, WS Kurth - Nature Astronomy, 2018 - nature.com
The icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, is thought to lie on top of a global ocean,,–.
Signatures in some Hubble Space Telescope images have been associated with putative …

Transient water vapor at Europa's south pole

L Roth, J Saur, KD Retherford, DF Strobel, PD Feldman… - science, 2014 - science.org
In November and December 2012, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaged Europa's
ultraviolet emissions in the search for vapor plume activity. We report statistically significant …

Induced magnetic fields as evidence for subsurface oceans in Europa and Callisto

KK Khurana, MG Kivelson, DJ Stevenson, G Schubert… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
The Galileo spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since 7 December 1995, and encounters
one of the four galilean satellites—Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto—on each orbit. Initial …

Active formation of 'chaos terrain'over shallow subsurface water on Europa

BE Schmidt, DD Blankenship, GW Patterson… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Europa, the innermost icy satellite of Jupiter, has a tortured young surface,,, and sustains a
liquid water ocean,,,,, below an ice shell of highly debated thickness,,,,,,,,. Quasi-circular …

Active cryovolcanism on Europa?

WB Sparks, BE Schmidt, MA McGrath… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Evidence for plumes of water on Europa has previously been found using the Hubble Space
Telescope using two different observing techniques. Roth et al. found line emission from the …

Does Europa have a subsurface ocean? Evaluation of the geological evidence

RT Pappalardo, MJS Belton… - Journal of …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
It has been proposed that Jupiter's satellite Europa currently possesses a global subsurface
ocean of liquid water. Galileo gravity data verify that the satellite is differentiated into an …