10 December 2013
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New Observations of Europa from the Hubble Space Telescope
Thursday, 12 December
8:00 a.m.
Previous spacecraft missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa revealed complex patterns adorning the surface and generated a scientific debate about its icy outer shell and subsurface ocean. New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope present a surprising twist to our understanding of this unusual planetary satellite.
Participants:
Lorenz Roth, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA;
Joachim Saur, Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Germany;
Kurt D. Retherford, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA;
James Green, NASA’s Planetary Sciences Division, Washington, DC, USA.
Sessions: P42A, P35A
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Thomas Sumner
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