Sentences with phrase «global liquid water ocean»

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In the 1990s the Galileo space probe collected convincing evidence that Jupiter's large moon Europa has a global ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen surface.

Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.

This constant flexing of Europa by Jupiter's immense gravity melts its interior in the same way it melts that of neighboring moon Io, in essence keeping the water ice layers in the interior of Europa in a liquid state that form a global underground ocean.

Gliese 581 d orbits within its host star's habitable zone and so may have liquid surface water in a deep global ocean, as a «water world» (more).

O'Dell, C. W., Wentz, F. J. & Bennartz, R. Cloud liquid water path from satellite - based passive microwave observations: a new climatology over the global oceans.