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Europa
And the Moons of Jupiter
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NH and Fl
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Recap: Comparative Planetology
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Venus
• Near the inner edge of the Solar habitable zone
• Runaway greenhouse effect makes planet too hot to be inhabitable
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Earth
• Outside the unmodified Solar habitable zone
• Habitable because of a mild greenhouse effect
• Only planet with liquid surface water
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Mars
• Outside the unmodified Solar habitable zone
• Uninhabitable: too small to retain sufficient atmosphere for a greenhouse effect to operate
• May have subsurface water ice
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Other Types of Habitable Zones
Water requires heat and pressure to remain stable as a liquid
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The Moons of Jupiter
Ganymede Callisto Io Europa
The 4 Galilean moons; there are 59 others
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Discovery of the Galilean
Satellites
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Io
• The size of Luna
• Sulfur surface produces the orange, yellow, and black colors.
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Io • The most volcanically-active body in the solar system • Strong tidal stresses and internal heating. • Density close to that of Earth's moon. • molten silicate interior; iron core • No large craters è surface <1 million years old.
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Tides
• A tide is a differential gravitational force • Gravity scales as 1/r2
• Tides scale as 1/r3
• Tidal forces generate friction, which dissipates as heat
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Tides • Tidal friction causes some objects to rotate in synchrony with their orbital period. • Conservation of angular momentum affects orbits. • Tidal heat dissipation can heat objects.
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Tidal Heating
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Tidal Heating on Io
Loki Prometheus
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Orbital Resonances
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Ganymede • 3rd of the Galilean satellites
• Bigger than Mercury
• Differentiated, iron core
• Complex surface • dark cratered regions • light grooved regions
• The grooved terrain: • 60% of the surface • Faulted • Few craters è young
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Callisto • Most distant of the Galilean satellites
• Density è rock and ice
• Moment of inertia èundifferentiated
• Tidal forces have not heated its interior.
• Heavily cratered, very old surface
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Europa
• 2nd of the Galilean satellites
• Smoothest surface in SS
• Surface appears to be water ice
• Surface looks like Arctic Ocean • Iceberg-like structures • Dark lines appear to be cracks in the ice
• No craters è < 30 million year old surface
• Severe radiation environment
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Europa
Smooth surface - few craters - compression ridges - stretch fractures
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Europa
Conamara Chaos - 70 x 30 km region blue: young water ice (ejecta from crater Pwyll) brown: mineral contaminants
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Europa close-up
The surface at 1.6km resolution
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Europa close-up
The surface at 26 m resolution
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Europa Interior Models
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Life in Europa
Ingredients: • Liquid water • The precursors of organic chemistry • An energy source
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Internal Structures
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Extended Habitable Zones
• You do not need sunlight. • You do need liquid water • You do need an energy source.
• Examples: – Black smokers – Europan ocean?
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Europa
All these worlds are yours ... Except Europa. Attempt no landings there. Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two