Heat Flow Signatures on Europa: Thermal Model Results

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Oct 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.3208p&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #32.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.1013

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Measuring Europa's heat flow will place important constraints on its interior structure and history. We have developed a ray-tracing thermal model for the moon that can calculate surface temperatures that are in good agreement with LRO Diviner Lunar Radiometer measurements. The model includes the effects of multiply scattered solar and infrared radiation, one-dimensional heat conduction, and the radiative effects of earthshine at solar and infrared wavelengths. We have adapted the lunar model to quantify the potential effects of global-scale and local-scale heat flow on surface temperatures on Europa. The results show the extent to which multi-spectral measurements of thermal emission from the surface of Europa can differentiate between thermal signatures due to heat flow, and those due to variations in diurnal and seasonal insolation, radiation from Jupiter, and local variations in topography, thermal inertia and surface roughness.

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