Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985icar...61..185e&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 61, Feb. 1985, p. 185-191. Research supported by Adler Foundation.
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Europa, Ice Environments, Plasma Interactions, Satellite Atmospheres, Satellite Surfaces, Sputtering, Rotating Plasmas, Space Exploration, Sulfur Dioxides, Vapor Deposition, Voyager Project, Water Vapor, Jupiter, Satellites, Europa, Surface, Interaction, Corotation, Plasma, Ice, Sputtering, Experiments, Voyager Missions, Atmosphere, Molecules, Oxygen, Exosphere, Escape, Sulfur Dioxide, Water, Mixing, Ultraviolet, Wavelengths, Observations, Density, Hypotheses, Interior, Deposition, Frost, Deposits, Source
Scientific paper
The interaction of corotating iogenic plasma with the surface of Europa in light of recent ice sputtering, experimental results, and published Voyager data has been examined. It has been found that the residual atmosphere of Europa is made up of sputtered molecular oxygen and is exospheric from the surface outwards. It was also found that if sputtering, redistribution, and escape are considered and the sulfur dioxide/water mixing ratio is held constant over a UV observing depth, the observed sulfur dioxide density on the trailing hemisphere lends support to the hypothesis that liquid water from the interior of Europa is boiling out and being deposited as a frost layer on the surface at the rate of about 0.04 μm/year.
Bar-Nun Akiva
Eviatar Aharon
Podolak Morris
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