Large ocean worlds with high-pressure ices

B Journaux, K Kalousová, C Sotin, G Tobie… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Pressures in the hydrospheres of large ocean worlds extend to ranges exceeding those in
Earth deepest oceans. In this regime, dense water ices and other high-pressure phases …

Science goals and objectives for the Dragonfly Titan rotorcraft relocatable lander

JW Barnes, EP Turtle, MG Trainer… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
NASA's Dragonfly mission will send a rotorcraft lander to the surface of Titan in the mid-
2030s. Dragonfly's science themes include investigation of Titan's prebiotic chemistry …

Serpentinite and the search for life beyond Earth

SD Vance, M Melwani Daswani - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hydrogen from serpentinization is a source of chemical energy for some life forms on Earth.
It is a potential fuel for life in the subsurface of Mars and in the icy ocean worlds in the outer …

Geophysical investigations of habitability in ice‐covered ocean worlds

SD Vance, MP Panning, S Stähler… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Geophysical measurements can reveal the structures and thermal states of icy ocean
worlds. The interior density, temperature, sound speed, and electrical conductivity thus …

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 …

Science objectives for flagship-class mission concepts for the search for evidence of life at enceladus

SM MacKenzie, M Neveu, AF Davila, JI Lunine… - Astrobiology, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Cassini revealed that Saturn's Moon Enceladus hosts a subsurface ocean that meets the
accepted criteria for habitability with bio-essential elements and compounds, liquid water …

Holistic approach for studying planetary hydrospheres: Gibbs representation of ices thermodynamics, elasticity, and the water phase diagram to 2,300 MPa

B Journaux, JM Brown, A Pakhomova… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gibbs energy representations for ices II, III, V, and VI are reported. These were constructed
using new measurements of volumes at high pressure over a range of low temperatures …

The geochemistry of Enceladus: Composition and controls

CR Glein, F Postberg, SD Vance - … and the icy moons of Saturn, 2018 - books.google.com
Enceladus is the first world beyond Earth for which we have diagnostic observational data
concerning the composition of an extant ocean. The abundances of chemical species in the …

PlanetProfile: Self‐Consistent Interior Structure Modeling for Ocean Worlds and Rocky Dwarf Planets in Python

MJ Styczinski, SD Vance… - Earth and Space …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The open‐source PlanetProfile framework was developed to investigate the interior structure
of icy moons based on collectively matching their observed properties and comparative …

Titan: Earth-like on the outside, ocean world on the inside

SM MacKenzie, SPD Birch, S Hörst… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Thanks to the Cassini–Huygens mission, Titan, the pale orange dot of Pioneer and
Voyager encounters, has been revealed to be a dynamic, hydrologically shaped, organic …