Earth's early atmosphere

JF Kasting - Science, 1993 - science.org
Ideas about atmospheric composition and climate on the early Earth have evolved
considerably over the last 30 years, but many uncertainties still remain. It is generally agreed …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Planet formation

JJ Lissauer - In: Annual review of astronomy and astrophysics …, 1993 - adsabs.harvard.edu
Planet formation ADS Classic is now deprecated. It will be completely retired in October 2019.
This page will automatically redirect to the new ADS interface at that point. SAO/NASA ADS …

The pH of Enceladus' ocean

CR Glein, JA Baross, JH Waite Jr - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is a geologically active waterworld. The prevailing paradigm is
that there is a subsurface ocean that erupts to the surface, which leads to the formation of a …

Europa's crust and ocean: Origin, composition, and the prospects for life

JS Kargel, JZ Kaye, JW Head III, GM Marion, R Sassen… - Icarus, 2000 - Elsevier
We have considered a wide array of scenarios for Europa's chemical evolution in an attempt
to explain the presence of ice and hydrated materials on its surface and to understand the …

Formation of the Galilean satellites: Conditions of accretion

RM Canup, WR Ward - The Astronomical Journal, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
We examine formation conditions for the Galilean satellites in the context of models of late-
stage giant planet accretion and satellite-disk interactions. We first reevaluate the current …

Investigating Europa's habitability with the Europa Clipper

SD Vance, KL Craft, E Shock, BE Schmidt… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
The habitability of Europa is a property within a system, which is driven by a multitude of
physical and chemical processes and is defined by many interdependent parameters, so …

Water and the thermal evolution of carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies

RE Grimm, HY McSween Jr - Icarus, 1989 - Elsevier
Many carbonaceous chondrites have been aqueously altered within their parent bodies.
From chemical and textural data on these meteorites and from studies of collision …

Organic matter in meteorites: Molecular and isotopic analyses of the Murchison meteorite

JR Cronin, S Chang - The chemistry of life's origins, 1993 - Springer
Carbonaceous chondrites comprise a unique subset of meteorites. Two classes of
carbonaceous chondrites, the so-called CI1 and CM2 chondrites, are particularly interesting …

Interior composition, structure and dynamics of the Galilean satellites

G Schubert, JD Anderson, T Spohn… - Jupiter: The planet …, 2004 - books.google.com
In this chapter we discuss the structure, composition, and dynamical states of the interiors of
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Interior structure and composition models of the …