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Identifying signatures of past and present cryovolcanism on Europa [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsEuropa, the most visibly active icy moon of Jupiter, is a prime target for the search for life in the outer solar system. Two spacecraft missions, Europa Clipper from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Jupiter Icy Moon ...
Elodie Lesage +7 more
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Massive Water Production from Cryogenic Icy Lunar Regolith by a Microwave Heating Method [PDF]
ResearchWater extraction from lunar regolith is one of the critical techniques for in situ resource utilization on the Moon. Traditional conductive heating methods show low efficiencies for massive water production from lunar regolith due to the low heat ...
Qinggong Wang +5 more
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Thermal picks for anchoring on icy moons [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 Europa, Enceladus, and other icy moons are exciting science targets, but our capabilities to adequately explore these planetary bodies needs to be developed.
Adam H. Halperin +2 more
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Q&A Europa Clipper mission [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsNASA’s latest space probe Europa Clipper, was launched on October 14, 2024, and will study Jupiter’s moon Europa. Europa is covered by an icy crust and is thought to host a subsurface ocean of liquid water. Europa Clipper’s main mission objectives are to
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, 2020 JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - is the first large mission in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme. The mission was selected in May 2012, and is currently in full integration and testing phase.
Olivier Witasse, JUICE Teams
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Ocean weather systems on icy moons, with application to Enceladus. [PDF]
Sci AdvWe explore ocean circulation on a rotating icy moon driven by temperature gradients imposed at its upper surface due to the suppression of the freezing point of water with pressure, as might be induced by ice thickness variations on Enceladus. Using high-
Zhang Y, Kang W, Marshall J.
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2023 EELS Field Tests at Athabasca Glacier as an Icy Moon Analogue Environment
IEEE Aerospace ConferenceJPL is developing a versatile and highly intelligent Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) robot that would enable access to subsurface oceans and near-surface liquid reservoirs through existing conduits, such as the vents at the south pole of Enceladus
Michael Paton +51 more
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Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsMany of the outer Solar System’s icy satellites feature known or suspected subsurface oceans, at least some of which are likely situated atop rocky interiors.
Paul K. Byrne +17 more
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Lateral melt variations induce shift in Io’s peak tidal heating [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe innermost Galilean moon, Io, exhibits widespread tidally-driven volcanism. Monitoring of its volcanoes has revealed that they are not homogeneously distributed across its surface: volcanic activity is higher at low latitudes and peaks east of the sub-
Allard Veenstra +4 more
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Icy Moon Surface Simulation and Stereo Depth Estimation for Sampling Autonomy [PDF]
IEEE Aerospace ConferenceSampling autonomy for icy moon lander missions requires understanding of topographic and photometric properties of the sampling terrain. Unavailability of high resolution visual datasets (either bird-eye view or point-of-view from a lander) is an ...
Ramchander Rao Bhaskara +7 more
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