Feasibility of radar detection of a Europan Ocean from an orbiting spacecraft

Details Feasibility of radar detection of a Europan Ocean from an orbiting spacecraft Feasibility of radar detection of a Europan Ocean from an orbiting spacecraft

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28..229c&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 229.

Physics

Europa, Sea Water, Radar Detection, Spacecraft Orbits, Rocks, Sea Ice, Feasibility Analysis, Galileo Spacecraft, Electrical Properties, Liquid-Solid Interfaces

Scientific paper

The original reconnaissance by Voyager and new results from Galileo suggest the possibility of a liquid water ocean beneath the ice of Jupiter's moon Europa. Because the electrical properties of rock, ice, and liquid water differ greatly, detection of a discrete ice/water or ice/rock boundary beneath the ice is possible. Here we demonstrate that a 6-m-wavelength radar could detect an ice-water interface about 20 km beneath the surface, given reasonable assumptions about the properties of Europan ice.

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