Hydrodynamic Models of the Enceladus Plumes

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Sep 2008

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #40, #8.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 40, p.399

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Water vapor flowing upward through porous ice and through cracks < 1 m wide will have the saturation vapor pressure of the ice. The ice evaporates into the gas and the gas condenses on the walls. Both processes alter the temperature of the walls and the thermodynamic state of the gas. Until now, no model of the plumes has taken this interaction between vapor and ice into account. Here we include this interaction in a gas-dynamic model to ask whether the water is liquid or solid at depth. The answer depends on the crack's temperature, depth, width, and history, which are uncertain. We use the observables - mass fluxes and speeds of particles and vapor, particle size, and composition - to restrict the possible values of the uncertain parameters and to address the question of melting at depth.

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