Sentences with phrase «jovian moon»

The Jovian moon of Io is lush yet rocky, filled with hills and canyons that make for perfect gunfight arenas.

Enceladus is often overshadowed by its larger distant cousin, Europa, which orbits Jupiter and the Jovian moon's awesome potential has been widely publicized.

Not surprising really, it's probably never been observed before: Io's whole shadow transiting across the large Jovian moon, Ganymede.

More definitive conclusions can only be drawn by future space missions to that fascinating Jovian moon, which would allow scientists to fill the gaps in our understanding of Europa's potential for life.

In February of last year, New Horizons passed Jupiter and the ever - active Jovian moon Io.

From HubbleSite: «NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed a pair of auroral belts encircling the Jovian moon Ganymede.

It has been suggested that another Jovian moon, Ganymede, may also possess a sub-surface ocean.

A thick hydrosphere is thought to exist around the Jovian moon, Europa.

If you're inspired by the idea of octopod bases beneath the oceans of a Jovian moon, then the possible bridge to such a future is NASA's outbound Europa mission — and the advancements wrought by the next generation of cosmic dreamers.

This Jovian moon isn't trying to give life the cold shoulder.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Europa report: first plume seen firing from Jovian moon»

The NASA probe would also make close flybys of another Jovian moon, Io, while the ESA orbiter, dubbed Laplace (named for the French mathematician and astronomer), would investigate Callisto as well as Ganymede.

After Mars, the icy ocean on the Jovian moon Europa is likely to be the next target.

A House of Representatives spending panel gives a boost to a proposed NASA mission to land a probe on the jovian moon Europa.

Its next phase will be the Europa Clipper mission, a Jupiter orbiter launching in the 2020s to study the watery depths beneath the Jovian moon's icy crust.

For Culberson, the centerpiece of that program is a quest to find life on Europa, a jovian moon.

If confirmed, the icy Jovian moon's eruptions could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean

Water vapor erupting from this Jovian moon could offer new pathways for exploring its subsurface ocean

NASA and the European Space Agency already aim to lead missions to the tantalizing Jovian moon in the 2020s.

They include a robotic arm to scoop samples and others to analyze the chemistry of the Jovian moon's icy surface (SN: 5/17/14, p. 20).

Solids transmit sound efficiently: The grinding of Europa's thick ice sheets would make the surface of that Jovian moon far from library - quiet to an astronaut there.

The discovery, announced here on 16 December at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), adds Ganymede to the list of two other Jovian moons — Europa and Callisto — that appear to host oceans beneath their pocked and fractured surfaces.

And the auroras that light up its atmosphere arise not just from charged solar particles slamming into the planet's atmosphere, as on Earth, but from Jovian moons spewing material toward the planet.

Take, for instance, the three big inner Jovian moons, now visible through binoculars as Jupiter reaches its closest approach to Earth on March 4.

The images provided the first observational support for an intriguing idea that, until then, had been solely theoretical: The Jovian moons might have oceans on the inside.

The largest Jovian moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — were first discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s.

Europa's briny ocean may also have an acidity similar to battery acid, rich in the sulfur compounds found on the other large Jovian moons.

While at Arizona, Phillips developed image processing techniques that allowed her to compare satellite images taken at different times of the same geologic locations of two Jovian moons, Europa and Io.

Not exact matches

Evidence for Jovian seas comes from the Galileo spacecraft, which has orbited Jupiter since 1995 and periodically swoops near its moons.

Io in particular, the closest of the four Galilean moons, contributes mightily to the store of charged particles that excite Jovian auroras, due to its several hundred volcanoes.

When planetary scientists started studying the photographs and data from Voyager and the subsequent Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s, they confirmed this notion: these ridges, or lineae, are fructures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons.

The Jovian system is a busy place: Jupiter has a very strong magnetic field, a faint ring system and over 60 rocky moons orbiting around it.

The vast network of crisscrossing cracks that are seen on the surface of Europa are caused by the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system, similar to the way that the gravity of the Earth's Moon causes tides on the oceans of our home planet.

The Galileo mission that studied the Jovian system during the 1990s and early 2000s confirmed the scientists» speculations that these ridges were fractures, or cracks, on Europa's icy surface, caused be the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system.

If all you're interested in is the motions of the Galilean moons, you choose the Jovian barycentre for origin, because then everything will be nice.