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NATURE ASTRONOMY
Volume 3, Issue 5, Pages 401-407Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0713-3
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- Region Ile de France
- project Equip@Meso of the programme Investissements d'Avenir [ANR-10-EQPX-29-01]
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During recent decades, data from space missions have provided strong evidence of deep liquid oceans underneath a thin outer icy crust on several moons of Jupiter(1,2), particularly Europa(3,4). But these observations have also raised many unanswered questions regarding the oceanic motions generated under the ice, or the mechanisms leading to the geological features observed on Europas(5,6). By means of direct numerical simulations of Europa's interior, we show here that Jupiter's magnetic field generates a retrograde oceanic jet at the equator, which may influence the global dynamics of Europa's ocean and contribute to the formation of some of its surface features by applying a unidirectional torque on Europa's ice shell.
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