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Cynthia B. Phillips
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 64
Citations - 2666
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 receiving 2295 citations. Previous affiliations of Cynthia B. Phillips include Search for extraterrestrial intelligence & University of Arizona.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Galileo at Io: results from high-resolution imaging.
Alfred S. McEwen,Michael J. S. Belton,H. Herbert Breneman,Sarah A. Fagents,Paul Geissler,Ronald Greeley,James W. Head,Gregory V. Hoppa,Windy L. Jaeger,Torrence V. Johnson,Laszlo P. Keszthelyi,Kenneth P. Klaasen,R. Lopes-Gautier,K. Magee,M. P. Milazzo,Jeffrey M. Moore,Robert T. Pappalardo,Cynthia B. Phillips,Jani Radebaugh,Gerald Schubert,P. Schuster,Damon P. Simonelli,Ryan C. Sullivan,Peter C. Thomas,Elizabeth P. Turtle,David A. Williams +25 more
TL;DR: During late 1999/early 2000, the solid state imaging experiment on the Galileo spacecraft returned more than 100 high-resolution images of volcanically active Io, observing an active lava lake, an active curtain of lava, active lava flows, calderas, mountains, plateaus, and plains.