Europa — The Ocean Moon Search for an Alien Biosphere /

• Main Author: Greenberg, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geophysics.; Space sciences.; Astrobiology.; Earth Sciences.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

Europa – The Ocean Moon tells the story of the Galileo spacecraft probe to Jupiter's moon, Europa. It provides a detailed description of the physical processes, including the dominating tidal forces that operate on Europa, and includes a comprehensive tour of Europa using images taken by Galile...

Table of Contents:

• Discovering Europa
• Water World
• Touring the surface
• Politics and intellect: Converting images into ideas and knowledge
• Tides
• Tides and resonance
• Tides and rotation
• Tides and stress
• Tidal heating
• Tides and orbital evolution
• Understanding Europa
• Global cracking and non-synchronous rotation
• Building ridges
• Dilation of cracks
• Strike-slip
• Return to Astypalaea
• Cycloids
• Rotation revisited
• Chaos
• Crust convergence
• The scars of impact
• Pits and uplifts
• Life on Earth and Europa
• The bandwagon
• The biosphere
• The exploration to come.