Do Oceanic Convection and Clathrate Dissociation Drive Europa's Geysers?

Water vapor geysers on Europa have been inferred from observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Keck Observatory. Unlike the water-rich geysers observed on Enceladus, Europa's geysers appear to be an intermittent phenomenon, and the dynamical mechanism per...

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Main Authors: Shibley, Nicole C., Laughlin, Gregory
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2021
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2111.15094
https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15094