P52A:
Icy World Eruptions and Their Analogs I

Session ID#: 2464

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3020 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Primary Convener:  Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Convener:  Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • C - Cryosphere
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

5410 Composition [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6207 Comparative planetology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6221 Europa [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
8450 Planetary volcanism [VOLCANOLOGY]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Comparative Planetology and Habitability

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

P52A-01
Plumes on Enceladus: Lessons for Europa? (Invited) (5689)
Francis Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States
P52A-02
Cryovolcanic Conduit Evolution and Eruption on Icy Satellites (Invited) (25297)
Karl L Mitchell, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
P52A-03
Is (1) Ceres a Small Planet or a Large Comet? (Invited) (5420)
Michael Küppers1, Laurence O'Rourke2, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan3, Vladimir Zakharov4, Seungwon Lee5, Paul Von Allmen6, Benoit Carry7, David Teyssier2, Anthony Marston2, Thomas Müller8, Jacques Crovisier3, M. Antonietta Barucci3 and Raphael Moreno9, (1)European Space Agency, Villanueva De La Can, Spain, (2)European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Canada, Spain, (3)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (4)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Burbank, CA, United States, (7)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (8)Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany, (9)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
P52A-04
An Icy Regolith Model that Predicts the Estimated Source Flux of H2O on Ceres and CO2 on Callisto (31517)
Stephen E Wood1, Jonathan Bapst1, Dylan Reynolds2 and Joshua M Mehlhaff2, (1)University of Washington, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
P52A-05
Following up on the Discovery of Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole with HST (Invited) (7549)
Lorenz Roth1,2, Kurt D Retherford1, Joachim Saur3, Darrell F Strobel4, Paul D Feldman5, Melissa A McGrath6, Francis Nimmo7, John R Spencer8, Cesare Grava1 and Aljona Bloecker3, (1)Southwest Research Institute San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States, (2)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, EES, Stockholm, Sweden, (3)University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, United States, (7)University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, United States, (8)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States
P52A-06
Searches for Plumes and Ongoing Geologic Activity on Europa from Galileo and Other Spacecraft (24192)
Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, United States
P52A-07
Radiolytic Gas-Driven Cryovolcanism at Europa (31051)
John F Cooper, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Menelaos Sarantos, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, Edward C Sittler Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geospace Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States and Rosemary M Killen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cent, Greenbelt, MD, United States
P52A-08
Observation of High Density Plasma in the Vicinity of Europa and its Potential Relationship with Plume Activity (31235)
William R Paterson1, Edward C Sittler Jr2, John F Cooper1, Richard E Hartle2 and Alexander S Lipatov3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
See more of: Planetary Sciences