Five decades of radioglaciology

DM Schroeder, RG Bingham, DD Blankenship… - Annals of …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Radar sounding is a powerful geophysical approach for characterizing the subsurface
conditions of terrestrial and planetary ice masses at local to global scales. As a result, a wide …

The likely thickness of Europa's icy shell

SM Howell - The Planetary Science Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The icy outer shell of Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to be geologically active, and
geological processes within the ice may be key to sustaining chemical disequilibria and …

Dynamics of a solidifying icy satellite shell

JJ Buffo, CR Meyer… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ocean worlds have been identified as high‐priority astrobiology targets due to the link
between life and liquid water. Young surface terrain on many icy bodies indicates that they …

Characterizing the ice-ocean interface of icy worlds: A theoretical approach

JJ Buffo, BE Schmidt, C Huber, CR Meyer - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
We investigate the structure and evolution of multiphase ice-ocean interfaces ('mushy
layers') and the implications for the geophysics and habitability of ice-ocean worlds …

Radar attenuation in Europa's ice shell: Obstacles and opportunities for constraining the shell thickness and its thermal structure

K Kalousová, DM Schroeder… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Young surface and possible recent endogenic activity make Europa one of the most exciting
solar system bodies and a primary target for spacecraft exploration. Future Europa missions …

Radar attenuation in Enceladus' ice shell: Obstacles and opportunities for constraining shell thickness, chemistry, and thermal structure

O Souček, M Běhounková… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Enceladus is a dynamic icy moon of Saturn and a leading target for future planetary
missions focused on the search for life beyond Earth. For such missions, instruments that …

[HTML][HTML] Ice dynamic recrystallization within Europa's ice shell: Implications for solid-state convection

G Mitri - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
Solid-state convection has been proposed to occur within Europa's ice shell based both on
the interpretation of observed geological activity during Galileo spacecraft exploration and …

Calathus: A sample-return mission to Ceres

O Gassot, P Panicucci, G Acciarini, H Bates… - Acta Astronautica, 2021 - Elsevier
Ceres, as revealed by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, is an ancient, crater-saturated body
dominated by low-albedo clays. Yet, localised sites display a bright, carbonate mineralogy …

Radar characterization of salt layers in Europa's ice shell as a window into critical ice‐ocean exchange processes

NS Wolfenbarger, DD Blankenship… - Geophysical …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The potential habitability of Jupiter's moon Europa has motivated two missions: NASA's
Europa Clipper and ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE). Both missions are equipped …

Assessing the detectability of Europa's eutectic zone using radar sounding

C Culha, DM Schroeder, TM Jordan, MS Haynes - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
Radar sounding is a geophysical method capable of directly imaging subsurface interfaces
within the ice shell of the icy moons, including Jupiter's moon, Europa. For this reason, both …