Distribution of rock, metals, and ices in Callisto

Autor: Gerald Schubert, William B. Moore, E. L. Lau, R. A. Jacobson, John D. Anderson, W. L. Sjogren
Rok vydání: 1998
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Zdroj: Science (New York, N.Y.). 280(5369)
ISSN: 0036-8075
Popis: Radio Doppler data from a single encounter (C3) of the Galileo spacecraft with Callisto, the outermost Galilean moon of Jupiter, indicated that Callisto was probably undifferentiated. Now, similar data from a second encounter (C9) corroborate this conclusion, but more accurate data from a third encounter (C10) indicate that the rock and ice within Callisto have partially, but not completely, separated. Callisto may be differentiated into a rock-metal core less than 25 percent of Callisto's radius, an outer layer of clean ice less than 350 km thick, and a middle layer of mixed rock and ice. Models in which ice and rock are mixed all the way to the center of Callisto are also consistent with the data.
Databáze: OpenAIRE