Moons and Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer (MAJIS) on Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) [PDF]
Space Science ReviewsAbstractThe MAJIS (Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the ESA JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer) mission is an imaging spectrometer operating in the visible and near-infrared spectral range from 0.50 to 5.55 μm in two spectral channels with a boundary at 2.3 μm and spectral samplings for the VISNIR and IR channels better than 4 ...
F. Poulet +87 more
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Astrobiology in Space: A Comprehensive Look at the Solar System [PDF]
Life, 2023 The field of astrobiology aims to understand the origin of life on Earth and searches for evidence of life beyond our planet. Although there is agreement on some of the requirements for life on Earth, the exact process by which life emerged from ...
Maarten L. De Mol
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Toward Understanding Polar Heat Transport Enhancement in Subglacial Oceans on Icy Moons [PDF]
Geophysical Research LettersThe interior oceans of several icy moons are considered as affected by rotation. Observations suggest a larger heat transport around the poles than at the equator.
Robert Hartmann +3 more
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Modifications of SPH towards three-dimensional simulations of an icy moon with internal ocean [PDF]
arXivThere are some traces of the existence of internal ocean in some icy moons, such as the vapor plumes of Europa and Enceladus. This implies a region of liquid water beneath the surface ice shell. Since liquid water would be essential for the origin of life, it is important to understand the development of these internal oceans, particularly their ...
Keiya Murashima +3 more
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Marine Science Can Contribute to the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life [PDF]
LifeLife on our planet likely evolved in the ocean, and thus exo-oceans are key habitats to search for extraterrestrial life. We conducted a data-driven bibliographic survey on the astrobiology literature to identify emerging research trends with marine ...
Jacopo Aguzzi +14 more
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Energy and Temperature Dependencies for Electron-induced Sputtering from H2O Ice: Implications for the Icy Galilean Moons [PDF]
The Planetary Science JournalTo better assess the role that electrons play in exosphere production on icy bodies, we measured the total and O _2 sputtering yields from H _2 O ice for electrons with energies between 0.75 and 10 keV and temperatures between 15 and 124.5 K.
Rebecca A. Carmack, Mark J. Loeffler
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The Icy-Conglomerate Model of the Moon.
The Astronomical Journal, 1965 Donald A. Macrae
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AUV trajectory optimization with hydrodynamic forces for Icy Moon Exploration [PDF]
In 17th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and
Automation, 18-20 October 2023. 2023To explore oceans on ice-covered moons in the solar system, energy-efficient Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) with long ranges must cover enough distance to record and collect enough data. These usually underactuated vehicles are hard to control when performing tasks such as vertical docking or the inspection of vertical walls.
Lukas Rust, Shubham Vyas, Bilal Wehbe
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Rotating convection with a melting boundary: An application to the icy moons
Icarus24 pages, 17 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ...
T. Gastine, Benjamin Favier
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Carbon-rich icy moons and dwarf planets [PDF]
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022 <p>Internal structure models of dwarf planets and giant planets&#8217; moons previously assumed essentially Earth-like silicate-metal cores surrounded by ice. Inner density models of the rocky cores of differentiated Ganymede and Titan, the largest icy moons in the solar system indicate the presence of a low-density component in ...
Reynard, Bruno, Sotin, Christophe
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