| Session Details | |
| Section | PS - Planetary Sciences |
| Session Title | Understanding Icy Worlds, Ocean Worlds, and Habitability |
| Main Convener | Dr. Steven Vance (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, United States) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Frank Sohl (German Aerospace Center, Germany) Dr. Athena Coustenis (Paris Observatory, France) Dr. Mathieu Choukroun (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, United States) Dr. Jun Kimura (Osaka University, Japan) |
| Session Description | This session will be devoted to understanding icy worlds in the outer solar system, including those containing subsurface oceans, their possible analogues around other stars, and their associated processes and geochemistry that might enable them to support life. The session will include solicited and contributed presentations addressing observational, laboratory, and theoretical studies relevant to past, ongoing, and future missions. Relevant subtopics include: (1) interior structure, composition, and thermal evolution, (2) surface geology and composition, (3) orbital dynamics and tidal interactions |