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Donald BlankenshipUniversity of Texas Institute for Geophysics
Mosaic by Ted Stryk
Through Europa’s Icy Looking Glass:Through Europa’s Icy Looking Glass:Beginning the Search for LifeBeginning the Search for Life
on the Outer Planetson the Outer Planets
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The Galilean Satellites:
Galileo, 1995-2003
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
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Europa:warm salty H2O, mantle
contact, high energy
Icy Worlds: Oceans 13?
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Earth:open salty H2O
Titan, Triton, large KBOs, & mid-sized icy satellites:cold NH3-H2O, some perched, some mantle contact, low energy
Tr Er PlS Ti O R Enceladus:
cold H2O-NH3,or hydrothermal?
Titan: open CH4 seas
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Icy Worlds: Oceans 13?
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Europa’s Interior
Europa is a rocky moon with an outer layer of H2O!
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Europa: Ingredients for Life? Water: much more than all of Earth’s oceans Organic molecules: from accretion and comets Chemical energy: from above and below?
“Black smoker” on Earth’s ocean floor
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Europa is as conductive as seawater!
Europa’s Surface
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If surface ice is separated from the rocky mantle by a global ocean, the icy shell will rotate at a different rate than the rocky mantle
Stressing Europa I:Non-synchronous Rotation
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85 hr orbit
not to scale
permanent
time-varying
Stressing Europa II, and Tidal Heating
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Squeezing stresses surface and heats up ice (or rock)!
Stressing Europa II, and Tidal Heating
Animation by Dana Berryfor the Science Channel programEuropa: Mystery of the Ice Moon,
Dan Birman producer.
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Global Patterns
Map projection of Europa’s surface
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Global Patterns
Map projection of Europa’s surface
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Dynamic and Bizarre Geologyridged plains mottled terrain
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Ridged Plains
Mosaic by Ryan Sicilia
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Ridge Formation Models
Several candidate models Shear heating along fracture
plains is a leading model.
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Animation by John Spencer, SwRI
Bands
Separation and spreading of the icy crust
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Freckles of Europa’s Mottled Terrain
Mosaic by Ryan Sicilia
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Convection in Europa's Ice Shell
Pits, spots, and domes suggest ice convection (hot/light ice rising, heavy ice sinking).
Near-surface melt? Salts may be expelled from
warm plume cores.
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Convection in Europa's Ice Shell
~ 100 K
~ 260 K
Melt? Convection? Frictional Heating?
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Chaos Models Melting model:
Ice shell thins and melts above oceanic megaplumes.
Diapirism model: Ice convection partially
melts salty ice.
≤ 6
km
≥ 20
km
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Journey to Conamara Chaos
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Icebergs?Icebergs?
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Large Impacts
Few large impact craters suggests 60 million year old surface. Multi-ringed impacts punched through 20 km thick ice!
Tyre
Pwyll
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Europa’s Floating Ice Shell
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Europa Orbiter:NASA’s Formal Science Objectives
1. Determine the presence or absence of a subsurface ocean
Characterize the three-dimensional distribution of any subsurface liquid water and its overlying ice layers
Understand the formation of surface features, including sites of recent or current activity, and identify candidate landing sites for future lander missions.
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We need to see both into and through Europa’s icy shell.
‘Thin’ shell
‘Thick’ shell
Chyba et al., (1999); Moore, (2000), Blankenship et al (1999, in press);
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Temperature Radar
Radar Sounding Models for Europa
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Orbital radar sounding works! Earth/MARSIS profiles Antarctica
Mars
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1600 km
Orbital radar sounding of Mars’ polar caps has been successful twice!
A. Safaeinili pers. comm
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Ice Surface
Bedrock3 km
23 km
South Pole Station
Radar sounding of Earth’s ice sheets is routine…
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1993
2001
Europa has inspired development of new radar acquisition and imaging technologies.…
(Peters et al. 2005, 2007)
Surface scattering
New features seen with reduced scattering
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1993
2001
Surface scattering
And with the latest supercomputer processing….
Water on bedrockresolved
Europa has inspired development of new radar acquisition and imaging technologies.…
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Earth Analogs: Antarctic Ice Sheet and Ice Streams
(Joughin, et al., 1999)
fast
Ice velocity
Europa’s ice is under tension and compression.So is Antarctica’s!
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Earth Analogs: Antarctic Ice Shelves
Europa’s ice is floating. So are parts of Antarctica.
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Earth Analogs: Arctic Ice Caps
(Arctic Environmental Atlas, UNEP)
Europa has complex patterns of warm and cold ice.
Earth’s arctic is alsothermally complex.
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Radar can detect water-filled fractures beneath a thin ice shell
Peters et al., 2005. 2007Earth: tidal cracking near ice shelf originEuropa: ridge/band formation and transition
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Radar can detect processes beneath an ice shellSubglacial Lake Vostok (Falola and Oliason, 2001; Studinger et al., 2003)
Earth: lake-ice accretionEuropa: rigid shell or ductile layer accretion
Cross-sectionMap of
accreted ice
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Radar can detect water within an ice shell – Arctic Glaciers
Earth: polythermal glaciers (melt drainage, mobile ice)Europa: ridged plains + mottled terrain (mobile ice/diapirism)
(Smith, et al., 2002)
(Bjornsson et al., 1996).
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Studies of ice on Earth will be essential for successful orbital radar sounding of Europa’s subsurface
Byrd Glacier, Antarctica
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Europa Explorer Concept
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Europa Lander
Illustration by Dana Berry for the Science Channel show
Europa: Mystery of the Ice Moon, Dan Birman producer.
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Europa Cryobot