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Scientific paper
Jan 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987natur.325..133r&link_type=abstract
Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 325, Jan. 8, 1987, p. 133, 134.
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Europa, Heating, Ocean Models, Ocean Temperature, Satellite Surfaces, Tectonics, Lithosphere, Satellite Atmospheres, Tides, Water, Jupiter, Satellites, Europa, Tidal Effects, Heating, Models, Water, Composition, Thickness, Interior, Layers, Ice, Lithosphere, Freezing, Calculations, Dissipation, Orbits, Eccentricity, Heat, Sources
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Considerable evidence suggests that Europa's internal structure might consist of a liquid water layer that decouples a thin (<30 km) overlying ice lithosphere from an underlying silicate core. Cassen et al. first showed how tidal heating, if sufficiently intense, might stabilize a thin ice lithosphere over the internal ocean and prevent the water from freezing. Other models of Europa do not include an internal ocean and instead have an ice layer resting directly on the silicate interior. Here the authors present new calculations of tidal heating based on a more realistic three-layer model of Europa. The tidal distortion of a decoupled ice lithosphere is only half that previously thought. At the current value of orbital eccentricity, tidal heating is only marginally able to prevent the internal ocean from freezing.
Ross Martin N.
Schubert Gerald
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