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Leveraging the Gravity Field Spectrum for Icy Satellite Interior Structure Determination: The Case of Europa with the Europa Clipper Mission

Understanding the interior structures of icy moons is pivotal for addressing their origins and habitability. We introduce an approach employing the gravity field spectrum as an additional constraint for the inversion of differentiated icy bodies' interior structures. After developing the genera...

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Published in:The planetary science journal 2024-02, Vol.5 (2), p.45
Main Authors: Cascioli, G., Mazarico, E., Dombard, A. J., Nimmo, F.
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