The study of thermal properties of frozen salt solutions representative of ice layers in Jovian moons is crucial to support the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) (ESA) and Europa Clipper (NASA) missions, which will be launched in the upcoming years to make detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons (Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto), due to the scarcity of experimental measurements. Measurements of thermal conductivity in frozen salt solutions as analogues of Jovian icy moons are very scarce in the literature. JUICE is the first large-class mission in ESA’s Cosmic Vision 2015– 2025 programme. Planned for launch in 2022 and arrival at Jupiter in 2029, it will spend at least 3 years making detailed observations of Jupiter and its environment. In this work, we propose to study the thermal conductivity and calorimetry of several frozen solutions.
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| Thermal conductivity measurements of macroscopic frozen salt ice analogues of Jovian icy moons in support of the planned JUICE missionC González Díaz, S Aparicio Secanellas, G M Muñoz Caro, J J Anaya Velayos, H Carrascosa, M G Hernández, V Muñoz-Iglesias, Á Marcos-Fernández, O Prieto-Ballesteros, R Lorente, O Witasse, N AltobelliMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 510, Issue 3, March 2022, Pages 4166–4179https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab3634 | G-CARMA |
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