Supporting the search for alien life by exploring geologic faulting on icy moons

Manoa HI (SPX) Nov 16, 2023

On the surface of many of the icy moons in our solar system, scientists have documented strike-slip faults, those that occur when fault walls in the ground's crust move past one another sideways, as is the case at the San Andreas fault in California. Two recently published studies led by University of Hawai'i at Manoa earth and space scientists document and reveal the mechanisms behind these geo