Dr. Krista Soderlund: Jovian Geodynamo, Europan Oceans, Liquid Metallic Hydrogen & the Europa Clipper Space Mission

Dr. Soderlund is always such a treat to chat with. I'm always in awe of how she effortlessly glides through and explains complex topics that bend and break my intuition of the physical sciences. This episode contains some extraordinary stuff, from metallic hydrogen and helium rain under Jupiter's thick clouds to sideways convection currents in Europa's massive sub-ice oceans. Mentioned Publications and Further Reading: Howell, S.M., Pappalardo, R.T. NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean world. Nat Commun 11, 1311 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15160-9 Mark Hofstadter, et al., Uranus and Neptune missions: A study in advance of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 177, 2019, 104680, ISSN 0032-0633, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2019.06.004. Soderlund, K. M. (2019). Ocean dynamics of outer solar system satellites. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 8700–8710. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081880 Soderlund, K., Schmidt, B., Wicht, J. et al. Ocean-driven heating of Europa’s icy shell at low latitudes. Nature Geosci 7, 16–19 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2021 Soderlund et al., The influence of magnetic fields in planetary dynamo models, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volumes 333–334, 2012, Pages 9-20, ISSN 0012-821X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.038 Mentioned Scientists: Don Blankenship Doug Hemingway Luc Lavier Dave Stevenson Corey Cochrane Daphné Lemasquerier Dr. Krista Soderlund Google Scholar | Profile Jason Bott & Podcast Socials Google Scholar | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Linkedin | RSS | Website