Ocean Worlds and Habitability

Watch Jonathan Lunine from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory speak at the Keck Institute for Space Studies short course "Sample Return from all across the Solar System" on September 9, 2024.
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[@ttmallard]

Cool, nice recap & like the new capabilities for Jupiter/Europa, cheers 🍺

[@genegray9895]

You forgot Dione, Tethys, and Miranda. Miranda shows clear evidence of ocean world activity in the recent past, suggesting either a present day ocean or one that was active very recently; Dione shows strong evidence for a present day ocean; Tethys shows clear, unambiguous evidence for past ocean world activity, but gravity and shape data suggest the ocean is currently frozen. You could also include many more KBOs, including all that show signs of cryovolcanism, but Haumea in particular requires a past ocean to explain its current shape and rotation state.