An ambitious Canadian Flagship project has successfully reached its goal drilling a 613 m deep ice core from top to bedrock though the Müller ice cap on Axel Heiberg Island, […]
We study the evolution of the Vis-NIR reflectance spectrum of salty granular ice analog samples in a simulation chamber under conditions relevant to the surface of Europa.
A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, “Marie Curie” fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute […]
The surface of Europa experiences a competition between thermally-induced crystallization and radiation-induced amorphization processes, leading to changes of its crystalline structure.
Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains.
We use a high-resolution digital elevation model and a numerical thermal model to produce a variety of inputs for a water-ice prospectivity model for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover […]
The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) observation of Europa recently revealed CO2 accumulation around geologically young chaos terrains Tara Regio and Powys Regio.
Icy satellites host topography at many length scales, from rifts and craters on the small end to equatorial-pole shell thickness differences that are comparable to these bodies’ circumference.
This work aims to develop a method based on a structurally reliable ice model and a statistically and physico-chemically robust approach for BE distribution inference, with the aim to be […]
The moons of Jupiter and Saturn, such as Europa and Enceladus, are strong candidates for the search for life outside of Earth.
