[Baps] Europa Seminar by Samantha Trumbo (Cornell) at BU today 4PM

[Carl Schmidt]

Hi All,

Please forgive the short notice, but I wanted to plug a seminar at BU this
afternoon that may be of interest to other BAPS...


*Thursday, 4/20 @ 4**:00PM*

CAS 502 and on Zoom



Join Zoom Meeting


https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/98530693170?pwd=ZjJPQ3JMekVISVBDL0VCR3lZU3JZdz09





*Speaker:*

Samantha Trumbo

Cornell University



*Title: *Oceanic Fingerprints and Radiation Processes on the Surface of
Europa



*Abstract:*

Beneath its ice shell, Jupiter’s moon Europa is understood to harbor a
global, salty, liquid water ocean, making it a prime target for exploring
habitability in the Solar System. Currently, the composition of Europa’s
geologically young, fractured surface provides our best window into its
ocean chemistry. However, its surface is also continuously altered by
Jovian magnetospheric particle bombardment, creating a natural laboratory
for radiation processes involving water ice, salts, and sulfur from the
volcanoes of nearby Io. Unraveling and exploring the resulting tapestry of
endogenic and exogenic signatures thus both provides clues to Europa’s
internal geochemistry and keys to understanding radiolytic cycles common to
icy bodies throughout the Solar System. I will discuss how recent
Earth-based spectroscopic observations have been expanding our
understanding of Europa’s heterogeneous surface and revealing new mysteries
ahead of NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission.

Best wishes, Carl

-- 
Carl Schmidt
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Space Physics
Boston University
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