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An Antenna Made for an Icy, Radioactive Hell: JPL's All-Metal Design Canwithstand Europa's Brutal Environment
- Source :
- IEEE Spectrum. 58:34-39
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021.
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Abstract
- Europa, one of Jupiter's Galilean moons, has twice as much liquid water as Earth's oceans, if not more. An ocean estimated to be anywhere from 40 to 100 miles (60 to 150 kilometers) deep spans the entire moon, locked beneath an icy surface over a dozen kilometers thick. The only direct evidence for this ocean is the plumes of water that occasionally erupt through cracks in the ice, jetting as high as 200 km above the surface.
Details
- ISSN :
- 19399340 and 00189235
- Volume :
- 58
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- IEEE Spectrum
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........222258064d0eed7e55d60dd86457dbe9