A seismometer placed on Jupiter's moon Europa can use passive monitoring to determine the presence or absence of a possible liquid water ocean beneath Europa's surface ice and estimates of the thickness of the ice shell itself. Using probable seismic velocities for Europa's ice it is demonstrated th
Evidence for a subsurface ocean on Europa
โ Scribed by Carr, Michael H.; Belton, Michael J. S.; Chapman, Clark R.; Davies, Merton E.; Geissler, Paul; Greenberg, Richard; McEwen, Alfred S.; Tufts, Bruce R.; Greeley, Ronald; Sullivan, Robert; Head, James W.; Pappalardo, Robert T.; Klaasen, Kenneth P.; Johnson, Torrence V.; Kaufman, James; Senske, David; Moore, Jeffrey; Neukum, Gerhard; Schubert, Gerald; Burns, Joseph A.; Thomas, Peter; Veverka, Joseph
- Book ID
- 109766711
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 949 KB
- Volume
- 391
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0028-0836
- DOI
- 10.1038/34857
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