Pressurized Oceans, Cracking the Ice Shell, and the Eruption of Liquid Water on Enceladus

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Mar 2011

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42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 7–11, 2011 at The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1608, p.1138

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We calculate the pressure in an ocean produced by freezing of the
overlying ice shell. We find that for reasonable tensile strengths of
ice, and shells less than a few tens of kilometers thick, the entire
shell can crack and liquid water could erupt onto the surface.

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