Evolution of Pluto's Impact-Deformed Ice Shell Below Sputnik Planitia Basin

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F22%3A10445741" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/22:10445741 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=MuMkdPABq4" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=MuMkdPABq4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007221" target="_blank" >10.1029/2022JE007221</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Evolution of Pluto's Impact-Deformed Ice Shell Below Sputnik Planitia Basin

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Sputnik Planitia basin, the dominant surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto, is located very close to the far point of Pluto-Charon tidal axis. This position is currently believed to be a result of whole body reorientation driven by the combination of (a) the uplift of a subsurface ocean in response to a basin-forming impact and (b) the nitrogen layer accumulated inside the basin. Since an ice shell made of pure water ice cannot maintain the uplift on timescales of billions of years, the presence of an insulating and highly viscous layer of methane clathrates at the base of the shell has recently been proposed. In this study, we solve the thermo-mechanical evolution of the ice shell in a 2D spherical axisymmetric geometry and evaluate the gravity anomaly associated with the evolving ice shell shape. Taking into account the effect of impact heating and stress-dependent rheology of both ice and clathrates, we show that a thick shell (&gt;= 200 km) loses the impact heat slowly which leads to fast uplift relaxation of the order of hundreds of million years. On the contrary, a thin shell (similar to 100 km) cools down quickly (similar to 10 Myr), becoming rigid and more likely to preserve the ocean/shell interface uplift till the present. These results suggest that a thick ocean may be present beneath Pluto&apos;s ice shell.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Evolution of Pluto's Impact-Deformed Ice Shell Below Sputnik Planitia Basin

Popis výsledku anglicky

Sputnik Planitia basin, the dominant surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto, is located very close to the far point of Pluto-Charon tidal axis. This position is currently believed to be a result of whole body reorientation driven by the combination of (a) the uplift of a subsurface ocean in response to a basin-forming impact and (b) the nitrogen layer accumulated inside the basin. Since an ice shell made of pure water ice cannot maintain the uplift on timescales of billions of years, the presence of an insulating and highly viscous layer of methane clathrates at the base of the shell has recently been proposed. In this study, we solve the thermo-mechanical evolution of the ice shell in a 2D spherical axisymmetric geometry and evaluate the gravity anomaly associated with the evolving ice shell shape. Taking into account the effect of impact heating and stress-dependent rheology of both ice and clathrates, we show that a thick shell (&gt;= 200 km) loses the impact heat slowly which leads to fast uplift relaxation of the order of hundreds of million years. On the contrary, a thin shell (similar to 100 km) cools down quickly (similar to 10 Myr), becoming rigid and more likely to preserve the ocean/shell interface uplift till the present. These results suggest that a thick ocean may be present beneath Pluto&apos;s ice shell.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA22-20388S" target="_blank" >GA22-20388S: Vývoj vnějších slupek ledových měsíců z pohledu numerického modelování</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets

ISSN

2169-9097

e-ISSN

2169-9100

Svazek periodika

127

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

e2022JE007221

Kód UT WoS článku

000804006600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85132944974