Timing and Abundance of Clathrate Formation Control Ocean Evolution in Outer Solar System Bodies: Challenges of Maintaining a Thick Ocean within Pluto
Clathrate hydrates may represent a sizable fraction of material within the icy shells of Kuiper Belt objects and icy moons. They influence the chemical and thermal evolution of subsurface oceans by locking volatiles into the ice shell and by providing more thermal insulation than pure water ice. We...
Main Authors: | Samuel W. Courville, Julie C. Castillo-Rogez, Mohit Melwani Daswani, Elodie Gloesener, Mathieu Choukroun, Joseph G. O’Rourke |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2023-01-01
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Series: | The Planetary Science Journal |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acf377 |
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