Thermal Picks for Anchoring on Icy Moons [PDF]
Europa, Enceladus, and other icy moons are exciting science targets, but our capabilities to adequately explore these planetary bodies needs to be developed.
Arjun Agarwal, Raymond J. Sedwick
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Implications of high-pressure oxygen hydrates on radiolytic oxygen in Jovian icy moons [PDF]
Various icy moons, such as Europa and Ganymede, have thin oxygen atmospheres and exhibit spectral features attributed to oxygen held in their surface ices. The oxygen forms from the radiolysis of water.
Mungo Frost +6 more
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How to Detect Life on Icy Moons. [PDF]
The icy moons of the outer Solar System present the possibility of subsurface water, habitable conditions, and potential abodes for life. Access to evidence that reveals the presence of life on the icy moons can be facilitated by plumes that eject material from the subsurface out into space.
Sephton MA, Waite JH, Brockwell TG.
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Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures in Natural Ice Samples as a Proxy for Icy Moons [PDF]
Some of the icy moons of the solar system with a subsurface ocean, such as Europa and Enceladus, are the targets of future space missions that search for potential extraterrestrial life forms.
Francisco Calapez +6 more
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Crystallography relevant to Mars and Galilean icy moons: crystal behavior of kieserite-type monohydrate sulfates at extraterrestrial conditions down to 15 K [PDF]
Monohydrate sulfate kieserites (M2+SO4·H2O) and their solid solutions are essential constituents on the surface of Mars and most likely also on Galilean icy moons in our solar system. Phase stabilities of end-member representatives (M2+ = Mg, Fe, Co, Ni)
Manfred Wildner +5 more
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A hidden pattern? Common polyextremophilic microbial adaptations in Icy Moon analog environments [PDF]
The search for life signatures beyond Earth is one of the main objectives of space exploration. Studies of analogous terrestrial ecosystems have shed light on the limits of life and on the adaptations of microbial communities to thrive in these extreme ...
Sandra Gusi-Martínez +4 more
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Hydrogen peroxide on Mars and icy moons: Implications for the search for extraterrestrial signatures of prebiotic chemistry [PDF]
Hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) is increasingly recognized as an important molecule in prebiotic chemistry that potentially had a large impact on life’s early evolution.
Mang Lin +4 more
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Biomarkers on the Icy Jovian Moons: Can Europa Also Provide Insights into Life’s Origin? [PDF]
Within the payloads of JUICE and Europa Clipper, there are instruments suitable for the search of specific biosignatures that can diagnose life tracks in two ways.
Julian Chela-Flores +2 more
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Magnetosphere and Plasma Science with the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer [PDF]
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) is a European Space Agency mission to explore Jupiter and its three icy Galilean moons: Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Kaweeyanun, N., +319 more
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The discovery of extraterrestrial reservoirs of liquid water has motivated missions to icy moons Europa and Titan. Tentative evidence of ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2SO4) has been detected on the surface of Europa, and (NH4)2SO4 could be a prominent ...
Charles S. Cockell, Cassie M Hopton
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