Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pggp.rept...17d&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1990 p 17-19 (SEE N92-10728 01-91)
Physics
Geophysics
Fracturing, Gas Giant Planets, Hydrostatic Pressure, Ice, Phase Transformations, Planetary Temperature, Tectonics, Earthquakes, Rheology, Saturn (Planet), Saturn Satellites, Solar System, Strain Rate, Uranus (Planet)
Scientific paper
Frozen volatiles make up an important volume fraction of the low density moons of the outer solar system. Understanding the tectonic history of the surfaces of these moons, as well as the evolution of their interiors, requires knowledge of the mechanical strength of these icy materials under the appropriate planetary conditions (temperature, hydrostatic pressure, strain rate). Ongoing lab research is being conducted to measure mechanical properties of several different ices under conditions that faithfully reproduce condition both at the moons' surfaces (generally low temperature, to about 100 K, and low pressures) and in the deep interiors (warmer temperatures, pressures to thousands of atmospheres). Recent progress is reported in two different phases of the work: rheology of ices in the NH3-H2O system at temperatures and strain rates lower than ever before explored, with application to the ammonia-rich moons of Saturn and Uranus; and the water ice I yields II phase transformation, which not only applies directly to process deep in the interiors of Ganymede and Callisto, but holds implications for deep terrestrial earthquakes as well.
Durham William B.
Kirby Stephen H.
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