Recent content by agreen15

I go to the Pirate-themed bar mentioned in the column all the time! Since they've gone back to their original goal they've done well for themselves and carved out their niche in the Silver Spring area. Whenever we go it's always nice and quiet and you can have a good conversation with your...

The criss-crossing lineae are probably best explained, as you said, by the ice shell's non-synchronous rotation. There's actually been a few fascinating studies on what the concurrent tidal stresses and non-synchronous rotation put Europa's shell through. The principal direction of stress on...

Europa scientist here! Let's take a look-see, shall we? Actually, the liquid ocean most definitely exists beneath it, as evinced by the induced magnetic field measured by the Galileo probe, shown to be due to the flow of ions in solution less than 100 km from Europa's surface. Most computer...