De Sitter's theory 'melts' Europa's polar CAP

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Dec 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975natur.258..503a&link_type=abstract

Nature, vol. 258, Dec. 11, 1975, p. 503-505. NASA-supported research.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Europa, Io, Light Curve, Occultation, Polar Caps, Astronomical Photometry, Eclipses, Ice, Jupiter (Planet)

Scientific paper

In photoelectric observations of a series of occultations of the Jovian satellite Europa by the Jovian satellite Io it was observed that increasingly larger fractions of the north polar region of the former were covered at mid-event with each successive occultation. One of the possible explanations of the observed phenomena involves the existence of a bright north polar cap for Europa. The reported investigation shows that a second explanation may be more plausible. This explanation is related to the possibility that at mid-event the projected minimum distance between the centers of the satellites was smaller than predicted by Sampson's theory.

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