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William B B. McKinnon
Professor, Washington University in St Louis
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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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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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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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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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The Europa Clipper Gravity and Radio Science Investigation
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
Erwan Mazarico, Dustin Buccino, Julie C. Castillo,...
The NASA Europa Clipper mission will explore Europa to assess its habitability. To inform this overarching objective, Europas formation and evolution ...
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Europa Clipper: 10 Months to Launch
OCEAN WORLDS AND SEARCH FOR LIFE: HORIZONS IN ICY SATELLITE SCIENCE AT THE LAUNCH OF THE HISTORIC EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION III ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Robert T. Pappalardo, Bonnie J. Buratti, Haje Kort...
NASAs Europa Clipper spacecraft will launch in October 2024, with the goal of exploring Jupiters moon Europa to understand its habitability. Europa Cl...
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Thin Ice Lithospheres and High Heat Flows on Europa From Large Impact Structure Ring‐Graben
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
08 december 2023
Kelsi N. Singer, William B. McKinnon, Paul Schenk
Craters are probes of planetary surface and interior properties. Here we measure depths, widths, and spacing of circumferential ring‐graben s...