Moon's ancient magma plumbing system

Magma plumbing system and seismicity of an active mid-ocean ridge volcano

At mid-ocean ridges volcanism generally decreases with spreading rate but surprisingly massive volcanic centres occur at the slowest spreading ridges. These volcanoes can host unexpectedly strong earthquakes and vigorous, explosive submarine eruptions. Our understanding of the geodynamic processes forming these volcanic centres is still incomplete due to a lack of geophysical data and the diffi...

The Effects of Moons on Saturn’s Ring System

The ring system of Saturn is a complex interaction between numerous particles, moons, and Saturn. A program was created to simulate the different aspects of the ring system and to study the effects of moons on the orbiting particles. Simply by considering both the force of gravity on each particle and collisions between particles, gaps formed at eight different resonant positions. I also studie...

Clump detections and limits on moons in Jupiter's ring system.

The dusty jovian ring system must be replenished continuously from embedded source bodies. The New Horizons spacecraft has performed a comprehensive search for kilometer-sized moons within the system, which might have revealed the larger members of this population. No new moons were found, however, indicating a sharp cutoff in the population of jovian bodies smaller than 8-kilometer-radius Adra...

Solar System Moons as Analogs for Compact Exoplanetary Systems

The field of exoplanetary science has experienced a recent surge of new systems that is largely due to the precision photometry provided by the Kepler mission. The latest discoveries have included compact planetary systems in which the orbits of the planets all lie relatively close to the host star, which presents interesting challenges in terms of formation and dynamical evolution. The compact...

Airway plumbing.