Exploring the Interior of Europa with the Europa Clipper
Abstract
The Galileo mission to Jupiter revealed that Europa is an ocean world. The Galileo magnetometer experiment in particular provided strong evidence for a salty subsurface ocean beneath the ice shell, likely in contact with the rocky core. Within the ice shell and ocean, a number of tectonic and geodynamic processes may operate today or have operated at some point in the past, including solid ice convection, diapirism, subsumption, and interstitial lake formation.
- Publication:
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Space Science Reviews
- Pub Date:
- September 2023
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2023SSRv..219...46R
- Keywords:
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- Europa Clipper;
- Interior;
- Subsurface ocean;
- Magnetic induction;
- Ice-penetrating radar;
- Tidal deformation