This new paper is really cool! They found CO2 on Europa's chaos terrain (e.g., Tara Regio). I'm curious whether this finding supports a metamorphic ocean origin over direct ice melting. It'd be cool if we could tie this into Europa's formation conditions!
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Mike Brown
So very excited to share this paper from a student who did a PhD with me and is now a 51Peg postdoc at Cornell. In her thesis, she predicted that a particular region of Europa would be covered in frozen(ish) CO2. In JWST data she finds: precisely that. 🔭🧪
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