P41B:
From the Earth to the Moons: Unraveling the Geologic, Oceanographic, and Chemical Mysteries of Ice and Ocean Worlds II


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Session ID#: 60164

Session Description:
This session seeks to bring together studies of icy and ocean worlds: those in our own solar system (including Earth!), possible analogues in extra-solar systems, and the associated geological, geochemical and oceanographic processes that might contribute to the evolution (habitability included) of such bodies. In particular, we focus on ice-water interactions. How might the observable surface be representative of processes taking place in the subsurface? How might they contribute to habitability? What types of interactions drive their evolution? How have/will such processes relate to past, ongoing, and upcoming missions? Seeking to bridge Earth and planetary studies from Mercury to Pluto and all satellites in between, we encourage contributions on: in-situ/remote sensing observations; theoretical and laboratory work; analog field work investigations.
Primary Convener:  Catherine C Walker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Christopher R German, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States and Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
Primary Liaison:  Catherine C Walker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Christopher R German, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Catherine C Walker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Co-Organized with:
Planetary Sciences, and Ocean Sciences

Cross-Listed:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • OS - Ocean Sciences

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • C - Cryosphere
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0726 Ice sheets [CRYOSPHERE]
4599 General or miscellaneous [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
6207 Comparative planetology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6299 General or miscellaneous [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Convective Dynamics of Icy Ocean Worlds (Invited) (349038)
Krista Marie Soderlund, University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX, United States
Layer formation in Europa’s subsurface ocean by double-diffusive convection (385531)
Teresa Wong1, Ulrich Hansen1, Thomas Wiesehöfer1 and William B McKinnon2, (1)University of Münster, Institute for Geophysics, Münster, Germany, (2)Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, United States
Downward oxidant transport through Europa's ice shell in porosity waves (453875)
Marc A Hesse, The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, Steve Vance, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Jake Jordan, University of Texas at Austin, Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
Melt Transport through Ammonia-Rich Ice Shells: Implications for the Evolution of Triton (395198)
Noah Patrick Hammond, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, E Marc Parmentier, Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States and Amy Barr, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, United States
Not so Solid: The Effects of Multiphase Reactive Transport Processes on the Spatiotemporal and Physicochemical Properties of Europa's Ice Shell (465384)
Jacob Buffo, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Britney Schmidt, Cornell University, Astronomy and Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States, Catherine C Walker, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Christian Huber, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States
The pH and Salinity of Ocean Worlds: when high-pressure ice separates the ocean from the rocky interior (383889)
Amit Levi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States and Dimitar D. Sasselov, Harvard University, Astronomy, Cambridge, MA, United States
The Plausibility of Silicate Volcanism on Europa’s Seafloor (454242)
Catherine M Elder, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Michael T Bland, USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States
The Formation of Cryovolcanic Domes on Europa & Implications for Cryolava Rheology (460164)
Lynnae C Quick, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States; Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Washington, DC, United States, Lori Sherea Glaze, NASA Headquarters, Planetary Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Sarah Ann Fagents, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, Karla Nunez, Middlebury College, Physics, Middlebury, VT, United States, Ross A Beyer, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Louise M Prockter, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, United States

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