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Using Schumann Resonance Measurements for Constraining the Water Abundance on the Giant Planets - Implications for the Solar System FormationThe formation and evolution of the Solar System is closely related to the abundance of volatiles, namely water, ammonia, and methane in the protoplanetary disk. Accurate measurement of volatiles in the Solar System is therefore important to understand not only the nebular hypothesis and origin of life but also planetary cosmogony as a whole. In this work, we propose a new, remote sensing technique to infer the outer planets water content by measuring Tremendously and Extremely Low Frequency (TLF-ELF) electromagnetic wave characteristics (Schumann resonances) excited by lightning in their gaseous envelopes. Schumann resonance detection can be potentially used for constraining the uncertainty of volatiles of the giant planets, mainly Uranus and Neptune, because such TLF-ELF wave signatures are closely related to the electric conductivity profile and water content.
Document ID
20120008699
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Simoes, Fernando (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Pfaff, Robert (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Hamelin, Michel (Paris VII Univ. France)
Klenzing, Jeffrey (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Freudenreich, Henry (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Beghin, Christian (Orleans Univ. France)
Berthelier, Jean-Jacques (Paris VII Univ. France)
Bromund, Kenneth (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Grard, Rejean (European Space Research and Technology Centre Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Lebreton, Jean-Pierre (Orleans Univ. France)
Martin, Steven (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Rowland, Douglas (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Sentman, Davis (Alaska Univ. Fairbanks, AK, United States)
Takahashi, Yukihiro (Tohoku Univ. Sendai, Japan)
Yair, Yoav (Open Univ. Raanana, Israel)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2012
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
GSFC.JA.5975.2012
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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