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Distribution of rock, metals, and ices in CallistoRadio Doppler data from a single encounter (C3) of the Galileo spacecraft with Callisto, the outermost Galilean moon of Jupiter, indicated that Callisto was probably undifferentiated. Now, similar data from a second encounter (C9) corroborate this conclusion, but more accurate data from a third encounter (C10) indicate that the rock and ice within Callisto have partially, but not completely, separated. Callisto may be differentiated into a rock-metal core less than 25 percent of Callisto's radius, an outer layer of clean ice less than 350 km thick, and a middle layer of mixed rock and ice. Models in which ice and rock are mixed all the way to the center of Callisto are also consistent with the data.
Document ID
20040172667
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Anderson, J. D.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Schubert, G.
Jacobson, R. A.
Lau, E. L.
Moore, W. B.
Sjogren, W. L.
Date Acquired
August 22, 2013
Publication Date
June 5, 1998
Publication Information
Publication: Science
Volume: 280
Issue: 5369
ISSN: 0036-8075
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Galileo Project
Flight Experiment
unmanned
long duration

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