Impacts on Ocean Worlds Are Sufficiently Frequent and Energetic to Be of Astrobiological Importance

Impacts on Ocean Worlds Are Sufficiently Frequent and Energetic to Be of Astrobiological Importance

Evidence for the beneficial role of impacts in the creation of urable or habitable environments on Earth prompts the question of whether meteorite impacts could play a similar role at other potentially urable/habitable worlds like Enceladus, Europa, and Titan. In this work, we demonstrate that to fi...

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Main Authors: Shannon M. MacKenzie, Alexandra Pontefract, R. Terik Daly, Jacob J. Buffo, Gordon R. Osinski, Christopher J. Cline II, Mark J. Cintala, Kathleen L. Craft, Mallory J. Kinczyk, Joshua Hedgepeth, Sarah M. Hörst, Abel Méndez, Ben K. D. Pearce, Angela M. Stickle, Steven D. Vance
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Planetary Science Journal
Subjects:
Titan
Enceladus
Europa
Impact phenomena
Craters
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad656b

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https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ad656b

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