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H $_2$ O $_2$位于木卫二主半球的混沌地带

H$_2$O$_2$ within chaos terrain on Europa's leading hemisphere

Samantha K. Trumbo, Michael E. Brown, Kevin P. Hand

摘要:

过氧化氢是木卫二上一个重要的辐解循环的一部分,可能是假定的地下海洋氧化剂的关键来源。过氧化氢的地表地理分布可能会限制其丰度及其与地下化学的潜在相关性。然而,木卫二的过氧化氢超过半球平均值的地图从未出版过。在这里,我们提出了空间分辨L波段(3.16 - 4 $μ$米)观测木卫二的3.5 $μ$米过氧化氢吸收,我们使用近红外光谱仪NIRSPEC和凯克II望远镜的自适应光学系统。使用这些数据,我们映射的强度3.5 $μ$米吸收整个表面在标称空间分辨率为$\sim$ 300公里。虽然以前的磁盘集成数据似乎与实验室的预期一致,即木卫二的过氧化氢主要存在于其最冷和最冰的区域,但我们在这个更精细的空间尺度上发现几乎完全相反。相反,我们观察到最大的过氧化氢消耗在低纬度的领先和反木星半球,与混乱的地形,以及相对枯竭的寒冷,冰冷的高纬度地区。这种分布可能反映了由于CO $_2$在混沌地形中有效清除电子而导致的过氧化氢破坏减少的影响。

英文摘要:

Hydrogen peroxide is part of an important radiolytic cycle on Europa and may be a critical source of oxidants to the putative subsurface ocean. The surface geographic distribution of hydrogen peroxide may constrain the processes governing its abundance as well as its potential relevance to the subsurface chemistry. However, maps of Europa's hydrogen peroxide beyond hemispherical averages have never been published. Here, we present spatially resolved L-band (3.16 - 4 $μ$m) observations of Europa's 3.5 $μ$m hydrogen peroxide absorption, which we obtained using the near-infrared spectrometer NIRSPEC and the adaptive optics system on the Keck II telescope. Using these data, we map the strength of the 3.5 $μ$m absorption across the surface at a nominal spatial resolution of $\sim$300 km. Though previous disk-integrated data seemed consistent with the laboratory expectation that Europa's hydrogen peroxide exists primarily in its coldest and iciest regions, we find nearly the exact opposite at this finer spatial scale. Instead, we observe the largest hydrogen peroxide absorptions at low latitudes on the leading and anti-Jovian hemispheres, correlated with chaos terrain, and relative depletions toward the cold, icy high latitudes. This distribution may reflect the effects of decreased hydrogen peroxide destruction due to efficient electron scavenging by CO$_2$ within chaos terrain.

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