Sentences with phrase «harbor water ice»

TRAPPIST - 1f, g and h seem to have thin atmospheres and could potentially harbor water ice on the surface.

On March 21, 2012, the MESSENGER team also revealed new supporting evidence that many permanently shadowed craters in Mercury's polar regions may harbor water ice insulated with a thin layer of soil or dust, or some other radar - reflecting volatile substance such as sulfur.

Permanently shadowed craters near the lunar polar regions have been found to harbor water ice deposits and organic compounds.

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The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

Their analysis will offer clues to whether Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus, both of which harbor liquid water locked beneath miles of ice, could also host life.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

Beneath an ice layer about 10 to 15 miles (15 - 25 kilometers) thick, the moon is thought to harbor a liquid water ocean, possibly warmed by geologic processes originating in the planet's core.

The team suspects that some of the pockets in these gullies might have held water in various forms in the recent past, over the last few hundreds of thousands of years, periodically harboring snow and ice when the conditions were right.

After orbiting Vesta, Dawn will leave for its nearly three - year journey to Ceres, which could harbor substantial water or ice beneath its rock crust — and possibly life.