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<div class="">We are very excited to announce that <a href="https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/1080/steven-vance/" class="">Steve Vance</a> (JPL) will be giving this week’s Planetary Lunch Talk (details below). Please join us Tomorrow, Tuesday April 4, @ 12:30
in 54-517 and on zoom. As always, lunch will be provided and we encourage attendees arrive a few minutes early to get food.</div>
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<div class=""><b class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Europa Clipper’s Exploration of Ocean World Habitability: Toward Joint Inversion of Geophysical Data to Determine Interior Properties</b></div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;" class="">I will provide a high-level overview of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which is set to launch in October of 2024 and begin exploring Jupiter’s ocean moon in 2031. A key goal of Europa Clipper is to infer the ocean’s
salinity. This parameter results from the moon’s thermochemical evolution, so it records of the ocean’s cumulative redox history. Geophysical inversion is famously non-unique—sparse data pertaining to interior properties can be explained by different configurations
of composition, temperature, etc…. We are actively developing the PlanetProfile interior structure modeling framework to consider the broad parameter space of possible Europa interiors. Simultaneously, we are conducting lab experiments to provide the missing
data needed to infer ocean density and electrical conductivity from gravity and magnetic field measurements. As I will illustrate, these methods and data are critical for exploring many of the solar system’s ocean worlds to understand their habitability.<br class="">
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<div class=""><font size="2" class=""><u class="">If you would like to meet with Steve</u>, please sign up <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nVu8N6KPO9nzfHA8AkSgW7F6fCILhq1dzwVAtg5jL28/edit#gid=0" class="">here</a>.</font></div>
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<div class="">Cheers, <br class="">
Jason, Wanying, and the PLS Organizing Committee<br class="">
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Zoom: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/92448700577" class="">https://mit.zoom.us/j/92448700577</a><br class="">
Pw: 54100<br class="">
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