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William B B. McKinnon
Professor, Washington University in St Louis
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Europa Clipper: Science Overview
AGU 2024
planetary sciences | 11 december 2024
Robert T. Pappalardo, Bonnie J. Buratti, Haje Kort...
The Europa Clipper missions overarching science goal is to assess the moons habitability. It will characterize Europas ice shell and ocean, study its ...
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Is Mimas Hollow?
AGU 2024
cryosphere | 11 december 2024
William B. McKinnon, Paul Schenk
One explanation for Mimas relatively large measured physical libration is decoupling by an internal liquid layer, or ocean. As is well-known, however,...
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Diving Deep: Investigating Habitability with NASA's Europa Clipper
AGU 2024
planetary sciences | 10 december 2024
William B. McKinnon, Kathleen L Craft, Morgan L. C...
NASAs Europa Clipper mission is the first mission designed to investigate the habitability of an icy ocean world, building on lessons from previous mi...
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True Polar Wander on Ganymede – A Solution to the Apex-Antapex Cratering Conundrum and Possible Explanation for Ganymede’s Subjovian Dome
ICE AND OCEAN WORLDS: GEOLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, CHEMISTRY, AND HABITABILITY I POSTER
planetary sciences | 15 december 2023
William B. McKinnon, Michael T. Bland, Paul Schenk
The observed leading-trailing hemisphere asymmetry in impact crater density on Ganymede is far weaker than that predicted by heliocentric crater bomba...
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Constraints on Europa’s Ice Shell Structure and Evolution through Time from the Tyre and Callanish Multiring Impacts
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION II POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
William B. McKinnon, Kelsi N. Singer, Paul Schenk
The two largest impact structures on Europa, Tyre and Callanish, possess compact systems of circumferential graben-like troughs, essentially miniature...
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Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON)
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION II POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Donald D. Blankenship, Alina Moussessian, Elaine C...
The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Euro...
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MASPEX: The Europa Clipper Neutral Gas Mass Spectrometer
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION I POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
James L. Burch, Steven C. Persyn, Tim Brockwell, J...
The Mass Spectrometer for Planetary Exploration (MASPEX) is a multi-bounce time-of-flight neutral mass spectrometer with unprecedented mass resolution...
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Investigating Europa’s Habitability with Europa Clipper
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION IV ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Steve Vance, Kathleen L Craft, Everett Shock, Brit...
The overarching goal of NASAs Europa Clipper mission is to explore Europa and investigate its habitability. Performing such an assessment is challengi...
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