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 …

Geophysical characterization of the interiors of Ganymede, Callisto and Europa by ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer

T Van Hoolst, G Tobie, C Vallat, N Altobelli… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) of ESA was launched on 14 April 2023
and will arrive at Jupiter and its moons in July 2031. In this review article, we describe how …

A metamorphic origin for Europa's ocean

M Melwani Daswani, SD Vance… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Europa likely contains an iron‐rich metal core. For it to have formed, temperatures within
Europa reached 1250 K. Going up to that temperature, accreted chondritic minerals—for …

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 …

The space environment of Io and Europa

F Bagenal, V Dols - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Galilean moons play major roles in the giant magnetosphere of Jupiter. At the same
time, the magnetospheric particles and fields affect the moons. The impact of …

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 …

Ice-ocean exchange processes in the Jovian and Saturnian satellites

KM Soderlund, K Kalousová, JJ Buffo, CR Glein… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
A growing number of satellites in the outer solar system likely have global oceans beneath
their outer icy shells. While the presence of liquid water makes these ocean worlds …

Large ocean worlds with high-pressure ices

B Journaux, K Kalousová, C Sotin, G Tobie… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Pressures in the hydrospheres of large ocean worlds extend to ranges exceeding those in
Earth deepest oceans. In this regime, dense water ices and other high-pressure phases …

Slow evolution of Europa's interior: Metamorphic ocean origin, delayed metallic core formation, and limited seafloor volcanism

KT Trinh, CJ Bierson, JG O'Rourke - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Europa's ocean lies atop an interior made of metal and silicates. On the basis of gravity data
from the Galileo mission, many argued that Europa's interior, like Earth, is differentiated into …

Holistic approach for studying planetary hydrospheres: Gibbs representation of ices thermodynamics, elasticity, and the water phase diagram to 2,300 MPa

B Journaux, JM Brown, A Pakhomova… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gibbs energy representations for ices II, III, V, and VI are reported. These were constructed
using new measurements of volumes at high pressure over a range of low temperatures …