Exploring the interior of Europa with the Europa Clipper

JH Roberts, WB McKinnon, CM Elder, G Tobie… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Galileo mission to Jupiter revealed that Europa is an ocean world. The Galileo
magnetometer experiment in particular provided strong evidence for a salty subsurface …

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 …

Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …

The likely thickness of Europa's icy shell

SM Howell - The Planetary Science Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The icy outer shell of Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to be geologically active, and
geological processes within the ice may be key to sustaining chemical disequilibria and …

Radar for Europa assessment and sounding: ocean to near-surface (REASON)

DD Blankenship, A Moussessian, E Chapin… - Space science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface
(REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Europa …

Ocean dynamics of outer solar system satellites

KM Soderlund - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean worlds are prevalent in the solar system. Focusing on Enceladus, Titan, Europa, and
Ganymede, I use rotating convection theory and numerical simulations to predict ocean …

Science objectives for flagship-class mission concepts for the search for evidence of life at Enceladus

SM MacKenzie, M Neveu, AF Davila, JI Lunine… - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Cassini revealed that Saturn's Moon Enceladus hosts a subsurface ocean that meets the
accepted criteria for habitability with bio-essential elements and compounds, liquid water …

Entrainment and dynamics of ocean‐derived impurities within Europa's ice shell

JJ Buffo, BE Schmidt, C Huber… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Compositional heterogeneities within Europa's ice shell likely impact the dynamics and
habitability of the ice and subsurface ocean, but the total inventory and distribution of …

Surface‐to‐ocean exchange by the sinking of impact generated melt chambers on Europa

E Carnahan, SD Vance, R Cox… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Impacts into icy bodies often generate near‐surface melt chambers and thermal
perturbations that soften the ice. We explore the post‐impact evolution of non‐penetrating …

Downward oxidant transport through Europa's ice shell by density‐driven brine percolation

MA Hesse, JS Jordan, SD Vance… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Jupiter's moon Europa is thought to have an ocean beneath its ice shell and the habitability
of the internal ocean depends on the availability of redox gradients. Downward transport of …