Cynthia B. Phillips
California Institute of Technology
64 Papers
113 Citations
Cynthia B. Phillips is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Impact crater & Jupiter. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 60 publications. Previous affiliations of Cynthia B. Phillips include Search for extraterrestrial intelligence & University of Arizona.
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Papers
Does Europa have a subsurface ocean? Evaluation of the geological evidence
Robert T. Pappalardo,M. J. S. Belton,H. Herbert Breneman,Michael H. Carr,Clark R. Chapman,Geoffrey C. Collins,Tilmann Denk,Sarah A. Fagents,Paul Geissler,Bernd Giese,Ronald Greeley,Richard Greenberg,James W. Head,Paul Helfenstein,Gregory V. Hoppa,S. D. Kadel,Kenneth P. Klaasen,James E. Klemaszewski,K. Magee,K. Magee,Alfred S. McEwen,Jeffrey M. Moore,William B. Moore,Gerhard Neukum,Cynthia B. Phillips,Louise M. Prockter,Gerald Schubert,David A. Senske,David A. Senske,R. J. Sullivan,B. R. Tufts,Elizabeth P. Turtle,Robert Wagner,K. K. Williams +33 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the geological evidence regarding an extant subsurface ocean, concentrating on Galileo imaging data and assess nine pertinent lines of geological evidence: impact morphologies, lenticulae, cryovolcanic features, pull-apart bands, chaos, ridges, surface frosts, topography, and global tectonics.
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The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds
Amanda R. Hendrix,Terry Hurford,Laura M. Barge,Michael T. Bland,Jeff S. Bowman,William B. Brinckerhoff,Bonnie J. Buratti,Morgan L. Cable,Julie Castillo-Rogez,Geoffrey C. Collins,Serina Diniega,Christopher R. German,Alexander G. Hayes,Tori M. Hoehler,Sona Hosseini,Carly Howett,Alfred S. McEwen,Catherine D. Neish,Catherine D. Neish,Marc Neveu,Tom Nordheim,G. Wesley Patterson,D. Alex Patthoff,Cynthia B. Phillips,Alyssa Rhoden,Britney E. Schmidt,Kelsi N. Singer,Jason M. Soderblom,Steven D. Vance +28 more
TL;DR: To map out a coherent Ocean Worlds Program, significant input is required from studies here on Earth; rigorous Research and Analysis studies are called for to enable some future ocean worlds missions to be thoughtfully planned and undertaken.
Possible ecosystems and the search for life on Europa
TL;DR: “life is a self-sustained chemical system capable of undergoing Darwinian evolution” is one working definition of life that has become influential in the origins-of-life community and is unlikely to prove useful to a remote in situ search for life.
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Europa as an abode of life.
TL;DR: Europa's suitability for life from the perspective of liquid water, a suite of `biogenic' elements (most famously carbon) and a useful source of free energy is reviewed.
Europa Clipper Mission Concept: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean Moon
TL;DR: The ice-covered world Europa, one of the four large Galilean satellites of Jupiter, may be the best place in the solar system to look for currently existing life beyond Earth as discussed by the authors.
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