诱导磁场作为欧洲和卡利斯托的地下海洋的证据
K K Khurana1, M G Kivelson, D J Stevenson
1Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles 90095, USA. kkhurana@igpp.ucla.edu
Nature
|October 31, 1998
概括
利略航天器的数据表明,欧罗巴和卡利斯托可能有地下盐海. 诱导磁场表明它们的表面下有导电层,支持海洋假设.
科学领域:
- 行星科学 行星科学
- 磁动力学 磁动力学
- 天体生物学 天体生物学
背景情况:
- 利略航天器一直在木星的轨道上运行,研究它的利略卫星.
- 之前的磁力计数据表明,欧罗巴和卡利斯托缺乏重要的内部磁场.
- 木星的内部磁层具有与其卫星相互作用的动态等离子体环境.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究欧洲和卡利斯托附近的磁场扰动.
- 将这些扰动解释为诱导磁场的证据.
- 评估对地下电导率和潜在海洋的影响.
主要方法:
- 来自利略航天器在与欧罗巴和卡利斯托近距离相遇期间的磁力计数据的分析.
- 在月球内的电磁感应的建模.
- 在木星磁层的背景下对观察到的磁场扰动的解释.
主要成果:
- 观测到木星在欧罗巴和卡利斯托附近的外部磁场的显著扰动.
- 这些扰动与月球内流产生的诱导磁场一致.
- 计算表明,在两个卫星的表面下方存在高度导电的层.
结论:
- 导电层的最佳解释是的液态水海洋的存在.
- 这一发现为欧罗巴和卡利斯托的地下海洋的存在提供了强有力的支持.
- 结果与欧罗巴海洋的现有间接地质证据一致.
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