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Solid-state greenhouses and their implications for icy satellites
- Source :
- Icarus. 77
- Publication Year :
- 1989
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1989.
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Abstract
- The 'solid-state greenhouse effect' model constituted by the subsurface solar heating of translucent, high-albedo materials is presently applied to the study of planetary surfaces, with attention to frost and ice surfaces of the solar system's outer satellites. Temperature is computed as a function of depth for an illustrative range of thermal variables, and it is discovered that the surfaces and interiors of such bodies can be warmer than otherwise suspected. Mechanisms are identified through which the modest alteration of surface properties can substantially change the solid-state greenhouse and force an interior temperature adjustment.
- Subjects :
- Lunar And Planetary Exploration
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00191035
- Volume :
- 77
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- Icarus
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19890040718
- Document Type :
- Report
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(89)90007-9