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 …

Investigating Europa's radiation environment with the Europa Clipper radiation monitor

R Meitzler, I Jun, R Blase, T Cassidy, R Clark… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
We present an overview of the radiation environment monitoring program planned for the
Europa Clipper mission. The harsh radiation environment of Jupiter will be measured by a …

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 …

Oxygen production from dissociation of Europa's water-ice surface

JR Szalay, F Allegrini, RW Ebert, F Bagenal… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Jupiter's moon Europa has a predominantly water-ice surface that is modified by exposure to
its space environment. Charged particles break molecular bonds in surface ice, thus …

Magnetic signatures of a plume at Europa during the Galileo E26 flyby

H Arnold, L Liuzzo, S Simon - Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We analyze the magnetic field perturbations observed near Jupiter's icy moon Europa by the
Galileo spacecraft during the E26 flyby on 3 January 2000. In addition to the expected large …

Moons and jupiter imaging spectrometer (MAJIS) on jupiter icy moons explorer (JUICE)

F Poulet, G Piccioni, Y Langevin, C Dumesnil… - Space Science …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The MAJIS (Moons And Jupiter Imaging Spectrometer) instrument on board the
ESA JUICE (JUpiter ICy moon Explorer) mission is an imaging spectrometer operating in the …

Evidence for non‐monotonic and broadband electron distributions in the Europa footprint tail revealed by Juno in situ measurements

J Rabia, V Hue, JR Szalay, N André… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We characterize the precipitating electrons accelerated in the Europa‐magnetosphere
interaction by analyzing in situ measurements and remote sensing observations recorded …

An entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for the resistive MHD equations. Part II: Subcell finite volume shock capturing

AM Rueda-Ramírez, S Hennemann… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The second paper of this series presents two robust entropy stable shock-capturing methods
for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element (DGSEM) discretizations of the compressible …

MHD modeling of the plasma interaction with Io's asymmetric atmosphere

A Blöcker, J Saur, L Roth… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Io's atmosphere, with an average equatorial column density of≥ 1020 m− 2, exhibits
significant density variations with latitude and longitude. We apply a 3‐D …

Towards a global unified model of Europa's tenuous atmosphere

C Plainaki, TA Cassidy, VI Shematovich, A Milillo… - Space science …, 2018 - Springer
Despite the numerous modeling efforts of the past, our knowledge on the radiation-induced
physical and chemical processes in Europa's tenuous atmosphere and on the exchange of …