Tidal Heating in Gas Giant Ice Moons
This presentation is on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Europa and Enceladus. They are both known for being relatively large moons of gas giants made of a lot of water ice with silicate cores. Both are also suspected to harbor liquid oceans underneath their icy surfaces, sustained by salinity and tidal heating. Liquid water is of extreme interest to astrobiologists, which this paper will address, but it is primarily about tidal heating and its implications for the size of the subsurface oceans.
Publication Details
- Journal
- Digital Well (University of Minnesota Morris)
- Published
- 2025-05-09
- Primary Topic
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00