Europa: Tidal heating of upwelling thermal plumes and the origin of lenticulae and chaos melting

By Christophe Sotin, James W. Head III, Gabriel Tobie. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry

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Active Cryovolcanism on Europa? (2017, background): “These are most likely to form between 3 and 5 km from the surface where reasonable eutectic melting points exist (e.g., Sotin et al. 2002; Collins & Nimmo 2009; Zolotov & Kargel 2009; Schmidt et al. 2011).”
Enceladus: An Active Ice World in the Saturn System (2013, background): “In this picture, a region of low density is produced, for example, by convection-induced melting and drainage (e.g., Behounkova et al. 2012, Sotin et al. 2002) or by destabilization of denser clathrates (e.g., Kieffer et al. 2006).”
Iapetus’ geophysics : rotation rate, shape, and equatorial ridge (2007, background): “The 150-km radius core is too small to trigger any significant low viscosity, hot upwelling in which tidal dissipation could become significant (as has been described for Europa, e.g., Sotin et al., 2002 ).”
Long-Term Stability of a Subsurface Ocean on Enceladus (2007, methodology): “convection), there is strong feedback between the heating rate at any given location within the satellite and the local temperature and viscosity (Sotin et al., 2002).”
Cryovolcanic features on Titan's surface as revealed by the Cassini Titan Radar Mapper (2007, background): “…plumes of warm ice may rise buoyantly in a convective icy crust, in the absence of tidal heating they will be stopped by an overlying conductive lid and at best cause doming; tidal dissipation in the plume core instead may allow a melt lens to form at the head of the plume (Sotin et al., 2002).”
Pressurized oceans and the eruption of liquid water on Europa and Enceladus (2007, background): “…the liquid water originated in the ocean and chaos is caused by melt-through of the ice [e.g., Greenberg et al., 1999; O’Brien et al., 2002], or is generated within the ice shell by thermal and/or compositional diapirs [e.g., Sotin et al., 2002; Pappalardo and Barr, 2004; Han and Showman, 2005].”