Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8138743 | Icarus | 2014 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
Using these novel scalings, we calculate the ocean contribution to the overall thermal energy budgets for many of the outer Solar System satellites. Although uncertainties such as ocean thickness and satellite obliquity remain, we find that for most satellites it is unlikely that ocean tidal dissipation is important when compared to either radiogenic or solid-body tidal heating. Of known satellites, Triton is the most likely icy satellite to have ocean tidal heating play a role in its present day thermal budget and long-term thermal evolution.
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Authors
E.M.A. Chen, F. Nimmo, G.A. Glatzmaier,