Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Riley Culberg; Dustin M. Schroeder; Gregor Steinbrügge

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29458-3

Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa

Riley Culberg,
Dustin M. Schroeder,
Gregor Steinbrügge

Affiliations

Riley Culberg: Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Dustin M. Schroeder: Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Gregor Steinbrügge: Department of Geophysics, Stanford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29458-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The formation of double ridges on Europa is poorly understood. Here the authors analyze airborne radar observations of an analog feature on the Greenland Ice Sheet to show that the refreezing of shallow water sills may produce such ridges.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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