Water plumes over Europa |
Water plumes over Europa |
Dec 12 2013, 04:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
This seems like the relevant place to post this (could be wrong): Water plumes from Europa? Apologies if it's already been up. The link to the Science article at the bottom doesn't work for me, does anyone have a working link to the original? Cheers.
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Jan 10 2014, 01:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 241 Joined: 16-May 06 From: Geneva, Switzerland Member No.: 773 |
I am probably very naive, but I thought, if we cannot detect the plume itself, may be it could be possible to detect the hotspot where it originates from (like for Enceladus).
Do we have instruments able to detect this ? (Again I'm thinking about GPI, since I'm so amazed by the resolution of its pictures). Regards, Marc. |
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Jan 10 2014, 02:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
I am probably very naive, but I thought, if we cannot detect the plume itself, may be it could be possible to detect the hotspot where it originates from (like for Enceladus). For Enceladus, Cassini CIRS had the advantage of being fairly close to the moon and the detector footprint was relatively small compared to the tiger stripes. For ground-based observations, any localized hotspots would be averaged over hundreds of kilometers of "regular" cold terrain. -------------------- |
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