But it is entirely based ON THE AIRY HYPOTHESIS.
Please read.
Page 74 (page 18 of the pdf document)
Lateral variations in ice shell thickness assuming complete Airy compensation of all known topography [up to spherical harmonic degree 8 (Nimmo et al., 2011)].
The Nimmo reference is the one you provided!!!
The authors of that article based their final conclusions ON THE AIRY HYPOTHESIS as well.
It is the Airy hypothesis which leads them to believe that there a subsurface ocean, and that the geysers have an interior heat source.
Without the Airy hypothesis, all we have a left is an icy hollow shell (perhaps some 50 km in thickness).
You cannot invoke the gravity readings.
Here is why.
Cassini is A THREE AXIS (3-AXIS) STABILIZED AIRCRAFT.
As such, it suffers from the same gravitational anomalies experienced by the Pioneer space mission.
http://www.ptep-online.com/2016/PP-47-02.PDFHowever, it is a very specific solution that applies only to the main term of the Pioneer spacecraft anomaly, but left unresolved many other anomalies, including those of the spaceships Cassini, Ulysses and Galileo.
Consider the anomalous acceleration detected at the shortest distance of the Cassini spacecraft during solar conjunction in June, 2002.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0907.4184.pdf The results from Galileo, NEAR, Cassini, and Rosetta, as well as the null result from
MESSENGER, summarized in Table 1, suggest that a relationship may exist between the
magnitude of the flyby anomaly and the altitude and geometry of the flyby trajectory.
Here is the EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY'S own assessment of the situation:
http://www.esa.int/gsp/ACT/doc/MAD/pub/ACT-RPR-MAD-2006-(JSR)NonDedicatedOptionsToTestThePioneerAnomaly.pdfAlso the Cassini tracking does not yield results of the necessary precision because the spacecraft is three-axis stabilized. Furthermore, thermal radiation from the RTGs causes a large acceleration bias, the magnitude of which is not well determined. The large bias
originates from the placement of the RTGs close to the spacecraft bus. The thermal control of the propulsion module subsystem is accomplished by collecting thermal radiation from the RTGs in a cavity covered with insulating blankets. The radiation geometry of the cavity is complicated and leads to a large uncertainty in the acceleration bias due to RTG heat.
Cassini is completely unreliable to provide any sensible data on any kind of gravitational reading.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0308017.pdfAttempts to verify the anomaly using other spacecraft proved disappointing. This is
because the Voyager, Galileo, Ulysses, and Cassini spacecraft navigation data all have
their own individual difficulties for use in an independent test of the anomaly.
This would have made the navigational accuracy too poor, as happened with the 3-axis-stabilized Voyagers. This is one of the main reasons the Pioneers were so well tracked.
Further, modern 3-axis stabilization relies heavily on the use of precise fuel gauges (to
measure fuel usage during maneuvers for input into navigational models), high quality thrusters (for precise attitude control purposes), reaction wheels (to keep preferred spacecraft pointing for a limited time), and often high resolution accelerometers (to track onboard generated non-gravitational disturbances). Although there exist fuel gauges with the desirable precision, thrusters have low repeatability and reaction wheel de-saturation introduces high acceleration noise. Finally, existing pico-g level accelerometers also have low reliability. This all makes 3-axis stabilization a very costly and undesirable choice for our deep space mission.
Furthermore, any gravitational reading, flawed as it is, must be CORROBORATED with the basic assumptions made regarding the geology of Enceladus.
And these assumptions, all of them, involve the AIRY HYPOTHESIS.
HERE IS THE REAL REFERENCE ON ENCELADUS, which provides the ASSUMPTIONS which lead to certain conclusions:
http://douglashemingway.com/publications/Hemingway-3003-reprint.pdfPage 64 (page 8 of the pdf document)
A compensation mechanism is therefore required.
is Airy-type isostatic compensation.
This is HOW they reach the final conclusions about Enceladus: they make the same assumptions they made here on Earth.
But the Airy isostasy hypothesis is false:
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1096437#msg1096437Page 65 (page 9 of the pdf document)
as it would require Enceladus to be one of the most strongly differentiated solid bodies in
the solar system. This observation also provides a clue about the spatial extent of the subsurface liquid layer (assuming Airy type compensation)
Assuming Airy compensation
Again, they assume the AIRY ISOSTASY hypothesis to reach final conclusions.
Page 66 (page 10 of the pdf document)
Here, the dimensionless factor g is a placeholder allowing for various conceptions of Airy isostasy
However, assuming some version of Airy compensation, a few things can be stated with confidence. First, the thinnest part of the ice shell must be located beneath the large
topographic depression at the south pole. Since the shell thickness is necessarily greater than zero there, this provides an effective lower bound on the mean shell thickness.
Depending on the definition of isostasy, and the assumed ice shell and ocean densities
Every hypothesis made about the DENSITY of Enceladus is provided by the Airy assumption, nothing else.
Page 67 (page 11 of the pdf document)
Whereas all the models discussed so far assume some version of Airy-type isostasy, in which the surface topography is supported in part by lateral variations in the ice shell’s
thickness, it should be noted that the topography could also be supported in part by lateral variations in density [i.e., Pratt-type isostasy (e.g., Besserer et al., 2013; Tajeddine et al., 2017)].
The authors agree that they based their conclusions solely on the Airy hypothesis, and that OTHER isostasy models (just as false) will lead to a different conclusion about the density of Enceladus.
Page 68 (page 12 of the pdf document)
A summary of all of the models is presented: everything is based ON THE AIRY HYPOTHESIS assumption.
Page 73 (page 17 of the pdf document)
and making reasonable assumptions about the ice shell and ocean densities, the total crustal thinning (relative to the mean shell thickness) at the south pole must be roughly 16–18 km, assuming complete Airy-type isostatic compensation
NOW, THE BEST PART!!!
Page 74 (page 18 of the pdf document)
Lateral variations in ice shell thickness assuming complete Airy compensation of all known topography [up to spherical harmonic degree 8 (Nimmo et al., 2011)].
The Nimmo reference is the one you provided!!!
The authors of that article based their final conclusions ON THE AIRY HYPOTHESIS as well.
The rest of the conclusions are based on the PHYSICAL LIBRATION assumptions.
Nothing else.
The gravity measurements, such as they are, are based on RADIO TRACKING, using the Doppler effect, which essentially is an ETHER WAVE theory.
On page 63, the authors describe the HUGE PROBLEMS with the radio tracking method for Cassini.
The 1.61 kg/m3 figure is PURE FANTASY, based on the Airy hypothesis.All we have left is an icy hollow shell with huge jets of water vapor which do not interact at all with the vacuum.
Here is your 500 km hollow rocket:
