Session No. 305
Wednesday, 30 October 2013: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 201 (Colorado Convention Center)

T12. Voyager to New Horizons and Beyond: Exploring the Icy Worlds of the Outer Solar System

GSA Planetary Geology Division; GSA Structural Geology and Tectonics Division; GSA Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division

 

Louise Prockter and Emily S. Martin, Advocates
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8:00 AM
THE NEW HORIZONS MISSION TO PLUTO AND THE KUIPER BELT
OLKIN, Cathy, Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 300, Boulder, CO 80302, colkin@boulder.swri.edu
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8:15 AM
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8:35 AM
AEOLIAN THRESHOLD ON TITAN:  RESULTS FROM EXPERIMENTS IN THE TITAN WIND TUNNEL
BURR, Devon M., Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, 306 Earth and Planetary Science Building, 1412 Circle Dr, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, BRIDGES, Nathan T., Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, MARSHALL, J.R., SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave, Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94943, WHITE, B.R., University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 and SMITH, J.K., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, dburr1@utk.edu
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8:50 AM
ESTIMATING REGOLITH THICKNESS ON ENCELADUS USING THE ANGLE OF REPOSE OF INDIVIDUAL PITS WITHIN PIT CHAINS
MARTIN, Emily S., Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution), 3323 Mount Pleasant St. NW, Apt. #11, Washington, DC 20010 and KATTENHORN, Simon A., ConocoPhillips Company, 600 N. Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX 77079, martines@si.edu
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9:05 AM
FEEDBACK BETWEEN ICE SHELL THINNING AND NONSYNCHRONOUS ROTATION STRESSES DRIVES FRACTURING IN THE SOUTH POLAR REGION OF ENCELADUS
PATTHOFF, D. Alex, Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA, Pasadena, CA 91109 and KATTENHORN, Simon A., ConocoPhillips Company, 600 N. Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX 77079, patthoff@jpl.nasa.gov
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9:20 AM
THE FUTURE OF IO EXPLORATION
WILLIAMS, David A., School of Earth & Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Box 871404, Tempe, AZ 85287, david.williams@asu.edu
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9:35 AM
STUDYING THE FORMATION, EVOLUTION, AND HABITABILITY OF THE GALILEAN SATELLITES
WYRICK, Danielle Y.1, WAITE, J. Hunter1, BROCKWELL, Tim1, MCGRATH, Melissa2, MCKINNON, William B.3, MOUSIS, Olivier4 and MAGEE, Brian5, (1)Southwest Research Institute, 6220 Culebra Road, San Antonio, TX 78238, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, (3)Washington University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, One Brookings Drive, Saint Louis, MO 63130, (4)CNRS Observatoire de Besancon, Besancon, 25010, France, (5)Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, dwyrick@swri.org
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9:50 AM
JUICE: A EUROPEAN MISSION TO JUPITER AND ITS ICY MOONS
GRASSET, Olivier1, TITOV, D.2, FLETCHER, L.3, ERD, C.2, DUVET, L.2 and JUICE SCIENCE AND STUDY TEAMS, The2, (1)LPG Nantes, Nantes University / CNRS, 2, Houssiniere Street, Nantes, 44322, (2)ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands, (3)University of Oxford, United Kingdom, olivier.grasset@univ-nantes.fr
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10:05 AM
CRACKING EUROPA'S ROTATION HISTORY WITH TIDALLY-DRIVEN FRACTURES
RHODEN, Alyssa R.1, HURFORD, T.a.1, JARA-ORUE, H.M.2 and VERMEERSEN, B.L.A.2, (1)Planetary Systems Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, (2)Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS, Delft, Netherlands, alyssa.r.rhoden@nasa.gov
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10:25 AM
DISPLACEMENT MAGNITUDE AND DISTRIBUTION ALONG AGENOR LINEA, EUROPA: EFFECT OF ORBITAL ECCENTRICITY
NAHM, Amanda L.1, CAMERON, Marissa2, SMITH-KONTER, Bridget2 and PAPPALARDO, Robert T.3, (1)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Dr, MS 3022, Moscow, ID 83844-3022, (2)Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968-0555, (3)Science Division, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, M/S 321-560, Pasadena, CA 91109, nahm@uidaho.edu
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10:40 AM
A SHALLOW SUBSURFACE HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM ON EUROPA?
SCHMIDT, Britney Elyce, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 311 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, GOOCH, Brad, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78758, PATTERSON, G. Wesley, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd, Laurel, MD 20723 and BLANKENSHIP, D.D., Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas at Austin, 10100 Burnett Rd, Austin, TX 78758, britney.schmidt@eas.gatech.edu
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11:00 AM
EVIDENCE FOR SUBDUCTION AND PLATE TECTONICS ON EUROPA: RELEVANCE TO SURFACE AGE AND ASTROBIOLOGY
KATTENHORN, Simon A., ConocoPhillips Company, 600 N. Dairy Ashford, Houston, TX 77079 and PROCKTER, Louise, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, Simon.A.Kattenhorn@conocophillips.com
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11:15 AM
SCIENCE AND RECONNAISSANCE FROM THE EUROPA CLIPPER MISSION CONCEPT
PAPPALARDO, Robert T.1, PROCKTER, Louise2, SENSKE, David1, VANCE, Steven3, PATTERSON, G. Wesley2, PACZKOWSKI, Brian G.1, GOLDSTEIN, Barry G.1, MAGNER, Thomas J.2 and COOKE, Brian1, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, pappalardo@jpl.nasa.gov
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