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FOLLOW THE HEAT
Intense volcanism driven by tidal heating from 4:2:1 orbital resonance of Io-Europa-Ganymede Best place to understand the tidal heating as a fundamental planetary process Large-scale silicate and ultramafic volcanism has been a key process on all of the terrestrial planets Heat-pipe tectonic end-member is relevant to early terrestrial planets and present-day exoplanets |
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MAJOR PARTNERS
University of Arizona Principal Investigator: Regents’ Professor Alfred McEwen Science operations, potential student collaboration camera JHU APL Mission and spacecraft design, build, and management; cameras; Plasma Instrument for Magnetic Sounding (PIMS) UCLA Dual fluxgate magnetometers JPL Radio science, navigation German Aerospace Center (DLR) Thermal Mapper University of Bern Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) U.S. Geological Survey Deputy Principal Investigator Dr. Laszlo Kestay; data processing |