Sentences with phrase «have liquid water beneath»

But evidence is mounting that the moon may have liquid water beneath its surface, a potential habitat for life.

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Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has solidified its membership in the growing cadre of solar system locales where liquid water flows beneath the surface.

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, Europa, Ganymede, Titan, Triton, Pluto, Eris... they may all have, or have had, large oceans of liquid water trapped beneath a frozen crust.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

The prime target of NASA's orbiter is Jupiter's moon Europa, which is thought to have an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy shell.

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.

The research shows that volcanic eruptions beneath a glacial ice sheet would have created substantial amounts of liquid water on Mars's surface around 210 million years ago.

Heat from a volcano erupting beneath an immense glacier would have created large lakes of liquid water on Mars in the relatively recent past.

Mission scientists have determined that this stuff is coming from a huge ocean of liquid water beneath the satellite's shell — and that this ocean may be capable of supporting life as we know it.

Chuck Booth wrote: «The existence of lakes beneath Antarctic ice is nothing new — this has been known for decades... What is new, and newsworthy, is that the extensive system of liquid water under the ice may provide a better understanding of ice sheet dynamics»

Analysis of data also shows that Ceres has a water - ice mantle surrounding a rocky core, and that there may still be at least pockets of liquid water beneath the surface, raising the prospect of potential habitability for microorganisms, as seemingly unlikely as that may sound for a world so far from the Sun.

Among the potential technological tools of the mission is a super-heated drill that would land on the moon's frozen surface and burrow through approximately 15 miles of frozen water, reaching the massive store of liquid water beneath.

Water ice and perhaps liquid water occur beneath the frozen surfaces of three of Jupiter's moons, although currently none have free surface waWater ice and perhaps liquid water occur beneath the frozen surfaces of three of Jupiter's moons, although currently none have free surface wawater occur beneath the frozen surfaces of three of Jupiter's moons, although currently none have free surface waters.

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

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

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

Many scientists believe Europa could be a good place to look for extraterrestrial life because it has an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.

«We found that tidal heating can be a tipping point that may have preserved oceans of liquid water beneath the surface of large TNOs like Pluto and Eris to the present day,» said Wade Henning of NASA Goddard and the University of Maryland, College Park, a co-author of the study.

The Cassini mission revealed that Enceladus has a hotspot at its south pole and propels geysers of ice crystals from its surface, indicating to scientists that liquid water likely exists beneath its surface.

So on condensation, under the still rising hotter lighter air carrying on doing its thing and perhaps adding new layers, there would be the accompanying volume and temperature decrease of that first previously rising lighter volume now heavier liquid water and added to by the adjacent volumes of heavier colder air flowing beneath the still rising lighter hotter and into the space now available on condensation of its neighbour, which all now being heavier will increase the pressure at the surface as they all sink together displacing the lighter.