P52A:
Icy World Eruptions and Their Analogs I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Primary Convener:  Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-Convener:  Cynthia B Phillips, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Plumes on Enceladus: Lessons for Europa?
Francis Nimmo, University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
10:35 AM
 
Cryovolcanic Conduit Evolution and Eruption on Icy Satellites
Karl L Mitchell, California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:50 AM
 
Is (1) Ceres a Small Planet or a Large Comet?
Michael Küppers1, Laurence O'Rourke2, Dominique Bockelée-Morvan3, Vladimir Zakharov3, Seungwon Lee4, Paul Von Allmen4, Benoit Carry5, David Teyssier2, Anthony Marston2, Thomas Müller6, Jacques Crovisier3, M. Antonietta Barucci3 and Raphael Moreno3, (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)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Burbank, CA, United States, (5)Paris Observatory, Paris, France, (6)Max Planck Insitute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
11:05 AM
 
An Icy Regolith Model that Predicts the Estimated Source Flux of H2O on Ceres and CO2 on Callisto
Stephen E Wood1, Jonathan Bapst1, Dylan S 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
11:20 AM
 
Following up on the Discovery of Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole with HST
Lorenz Roth1,2, Kurt D Retherford1, Joachim Saur3, Darrell F Strobel4, Paul D Feldman4, Melissa A McGrath5, Francis Nimmo6, John R Spencer7, 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)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (6)University of California-Santa Cruz, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (7)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35 AM
 
Searches for Plumes and Ongoing Geologic Activity on Europa from Galileo and Other Spacecraft
Cynthia B Phillips, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
11:50 AM
 
Radiolytic Gas-Driven Cryovolcanism at Europa
John F Cooper1, Menelaos Sarantos2 and Edward C Sittler Jr1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
12:05 PM
 
Observation of High Density Plasma in the Vicinity of Europa and its Potential Relationship with Plume Activity
William R Paterson1, Edward C Sittler Jr2, John F Cooper3, Richard E Hartle2 and Alexander S Lipatov4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 670, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
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