Formation of metre-scale bladed roughness on Europa’s surface by ablation of ice
@article{Hobley2018FormationOM, title={Formation of metre-scale bladed roughness on Europa’s surface by ablation of ice}, author={D. E. J. Hobley and J. Moore and A. D. Howard and O. Umurhan}, journal={Nature Geoscience}, year={2018}, volume={11}, pages={901-904} }
On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice. These sublimation-sculpted blades are known as penitentes. For this process to take place on another planet, the ice must be sufficiently volatile to sublimate under surface conditions and diffusive processes that act to smooth the topography must operate more slowly… CONTINUE READING
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