Sentences with phrase «icy moon dione»
This view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn's icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission's final close approach to the moon on August 17, 2015.
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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.
One of Saturn's moons, Dione, has joined the ranks of our solar system's «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with oceans beneath their crusts, Astronomy Now reports.
In the paper, to be published by the journal Icarus, Quillen states that «strong tidal encounters» may be responsible for the cracks on icy moons such as Charon, Saturn's Dione and Tethys, and Uranus» Ariel.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this parting view showing the rough and icy crescent of Saturn's moon Dione following the spacecraft's last close flyby of the moon on Aug. 17, 2015.