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 …

Evidence of a plume on Europa from Galileo magnetic and plasma wave signatures

X Jia, MG Kivelson, KK Khurana, WS Kurth - Nature Astronomy, 2018 - nature.com
The icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa, is thought to lie on top of a global ocean,,–.
Signatures in some Hubble Space Telescope images have been associated with putative …

Probing for evidence of plumes on Europa with HST/STIS

WB Sparks, KP Hand, MA McGrath… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Roth et al.(2014a) reported evidence for plumes of water venting from a
southern high latitude region on Europa: spectroscopic detection of off-limb line emission …

In Situ Field Sequencing and Life Detection in Remote (79°26′N) Canadian High Arctic Permafrost Ice Wedge Microbial Communities

J Goordial, I Altshuler, K Hindson… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Significant progress is being made in the development of the next generation of low cost life
detection instrumentation with much smaller size, mass and energy requirements. Here, we …

On the habitability and future exploration of ocean worlds

KP Hand, C Sotin, A Hayes, A Coustenis - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Liquid water oceans are now predicted to exist beneath the icy shells of numerous worlds in
the outer solar system. These ocean worlds are prime targets in our search for evidence of …

Planned geological investigations of the Europa Clipper Mission

IJ Daubar, AG Hayes, GC Collins, KL Craft… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Geological investigations planned for the Europa Clipper mission will examine the
formation, evolution, and expression of geomorphic structures found on the surface …

Sustained eruptions on Enceladus explained by turbulent dissipation in tiger stripes

ES Kite, AM Rubin - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Spacecraft observations suggest that the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus draw water
from a subsurface ocean, but the sustainability of conduits linking ocean and surface is not …

Surface‐plasma interactions at Europa in draped magnetospheric fields: The contribution of energetic electrons to energy deposition and sputtering

P Addison, L Liuzzo, S Simon - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We calculate the time‐varying spatial distribution of energetic magnetospheric electron
influx onto Europa's surface by combining a hybrid model of the moon's draped …

The optical aurorae of Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

K de Kleer, Z Milby, C Schmidt… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The tenuous atmospheres of the Galilean satellites are sourced from their surfaces and
produced by a combination of plasma-surface interactions and thermal processes. Even …