Cavalié, Thibault; Venot, Olivia; Miguel, Yamila; Fletcher, Leigh N.; Wurz, Peter; Mousis, Olivier; Bounaceur, Roda; Hue, Vincent; Leconte, Jérémy; Dobrijevic, Michel (2020). The Deep Composition of Uranus and Neptune from In Situ Exploration and Thermochemical Modeling. Space science reviews, 216(4) Springer Nature 10.1007/s11214-020-00677-8
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The distant ice giants of the Solar System, Uranus and Neptune, have only beenvisited by one space mission, Voyager 2. The current knowledge on their composition re-mains very limited despite some recent advances. A better characterization of their composi-tion is however essential to constrain their formation and evolution, as a significant fractionof their mass is made of heavy elements, contrary to the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. Anin situ probe like Galileo would provide us with invaluable direct ground-truth compositionmeasurements. However, some of the condensibles will remain out of the grasp of a shallowprobe. While additional constraints could be obtained from a complementary orbiter, ther-mochemistry and diffusion modeling can further help us to increase the science return of anin situ probe.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute > Space Research and Planetary Sciences 08 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute |
UniBE Contributor: |
Wurz, Peter |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 530 Physics |
ISSN: |
0038-6308 |
Publisher: |
Springer Nature |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Dora Ursula Zimmerer |
Date Deposited: |
02 Jul 2020 11:32 |
Last Modified: |
20 May 2024 00:25 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1007/s11214-020-00677-8 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.144897 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/144897 |
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