Seas under ice: stability of water oceans within icy worlds
The possible existence of internal oceans in some icy bodies of the outer Solar System has been recently suggested in a joint of observations that cover a wide range of evidences: induced magnetic fields in Europa, Ganymede and Callisto [e.g., ref. 1], induced by Jupiter’s field in an electricity-co...
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| Format: | book part |
| Publication Date: | 2002 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/60953 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/60953 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 550.2 Solar system Internal Oceans Geodinámica 2507 Geofísica |
| Summary: | The possible existence of internal oceans in some icy bodies of the outer Solar System has been recently suggested in a joint of observations that cover a wide range of evidences: induced magnetic fields in Europa, Ganymede and Callisto [e.g., ref. 1], induced by Jupiter’s field in an electricity-conducting layer near the surface, likely salty water; hydrated minerals on the surface of Europa and Ganymede [3,4], which suggest the presence of water on the surface in the past, with probably an inner source; geological evidences of a mobile layer a few kilometers beneath the surface of Europa [5]; or a recent resurfacing in Triton suggested by the craterization’s density and distribution [6]. But the nature of the different proposed liquid layers could be very different, although the own existence of inner oceans could be a common phenomena. |
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