P017
Ice from Grains to Landscapes: Surface Processes on Active Icy Worlds
Ice from Grains to Landscapes: Surface Processes on Active Icy Worlds
Session ID#: 85538
Session Description:
The extreme conditions and exotic materials on the surfaces of outer solar system bodies – such as the icy satellites, small bodies, and Kuiper Belt Objects – result in unique surface processes not commonly observed on rocky terrestrial planets. As the scientific community considers the in-situ exploration of these worlds, increasing collaboration between those who focus on landscape scales and those who study processes at the scale of a landed robotic vehicle will continue to increase in importance. To gather these different scientific communities together, we invite contributions ranging in focus from comparative planetology and remote sensing, to laboratory analogs, instrumentation and experiments, to theoretical and numerical modeling. We intend for this session to foster more collaboration between these communities, so that we may continue to explore the commonality of surface processes, from the grain to landscape scales, that affect these bodies, despite their dispersion across the solar system.
Index Terms:
5215 Origin of life [PLANETARY SCIENCES: ASTROBIOLOGY]
6024 Interiors [PLANETARY SCIENCES: COMETS AND SMALL BODIES]
6218 Jovian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
6280 Saturnian satellites [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Primary Convener: Samuel Birch, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners: Kevin P Hand, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Orkan M Umurhan, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States and Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison: Cynthia B Phillips, JPL / NASA / Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States
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