Sentences with phrase «beneath one's icy crust»

The discovery strengthens the case that the moon has a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, and may even offer a way to taste its seas and search for signs of life.

Although it lacks volcanoes or large mountains, it may have a salty ocean six miles deep beneath its icy crust.

This week brings a video reconstructed from images of the Philae lander's approach to a comet, and a major new analysis of data from the Cassini mission that bolsters the case for a global, not just local, ocean beneath the icy crust of Enceladus

A subsurface sea of water might hide beneath the icy crust of Dione, one of Saturn's moons, researchers report online October 9 in Geophysical Research Letters.

Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.

Earlier this year, Galileo scientists confirmed an induced magnetic field around Europa, indicating that a salty ocean flows beneath its icy crust (ScienceNOW, 11 January).

It's currently impossible to probe beneath the icy crust of a planet like Pluto, but if Ceres does have an exposed frozen (once subsurface) ocean, that gives planetary scientists a useful proxy.

While much of the ocean may have frozen since, the scientists suggest a liquid layer between 60 to 120 miles (100 to 200 kilometers) thick may persist beneath an icy crust, particularly if ammonia is present to act as an antifreeze.

On June 22, 2011, scientists working with the Cassini spacecraft revealed that the «best evidence yet» of a large reservoir of saltwater beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon, Enceladus.

Martian colonies could pack up the spaceship and relocate to Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists believe a large ocean of liquid water hides beneath an icy crust.

However, there is evidence that some may have layers of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

Cassini has made so many breathtaking discoveries about this icy moon, its geologic activity and global ocean that lies beneath its icy crust, yet so much more remains to be done to determine if this tiny ocean world could harbour life.

When the spacecraft plunged into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003, it was being deliberately destroyed to protect one of its own discoveries — a possible ocean beneath the icy crust of the moon Europa.

A present - day liquid ocean could be hiding beneath the icy crust of Pluto.

Jupiter's enigmatic moon Europa has long been thought to contain a huge ocean beneath its icy crust, but what is in that ocean and does it ever come to the surface?

Imaging of the surface may reveal whether there is indeed an ocean beneath an icy crust.

And last year, astronomers reported strong evidence that the Saturn moon Enceladus likely harbors a huge and salty ocean beneath its icy crust.

That includes Europa, which is thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust.

Combined with other discoveries of recent volcanic activity on Mars, those results strengthen the case that Mars could have warm, wet havens hidden beneath an icy crust.

Europa is already thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, making the moon one of the main targets in the search for habitable worlds away from Earth.

A microbe found on Earth has been shown to survive happily in conditions known to exist on Enceladus, which has a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust.

Two other moons of Saturn, Titan and Enceladus, are already known to hide global oceans beneath their icy crusts, but a new study suggests an ocean exists on Dione as well.

On October 7, Cassini data provided that Dione, too, might hide an ocean beneath its icy crust.

Europa has long been a high priority for exploration because it holds a salty liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust.

In view of the discovery of hydrothermal vents, it may be possible that life exists on Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, which scientists believe has a water ocean beneath its icy crust.

New images from New Horizons spacecraft may show proof that Pluto's moon Charon once contained an ocean beneath its icy crust, according to NASA.