Sentences with phrase «icy moon mimas»

The additional Europa funding is not surprising, as Rep. John Culberson (R - Texas), chairman of the CJS subcommittee, has been a leading advocate for a Europa mission for several years, adding funding well above any NASA request for a spacecraft to help determine if the icy moon can support life.

«By studying Saturn's moon Titan, which although being an icy moon can be considered something like the Solar System's rocky planets, we have discovered rainstorms produced by methane rather than water, and we have found that Titan's meteorology has things in common with Earth's tropics,» said Del Genio.

Some inveterate searchers after life have decided the icy moon Europa is the next place to look.

This comes with a new racing environment Europa (as seen above), who many of you may know is the icy moon of Jupiter.

... this icy moon's sizzling innards are not easily explained.

Saturn's icy moon Mimas (lower L) is seen while looking toward the sunlit side of the planet's rings, and was captured in red light with the Cassini spacecraft wide - angle camera on July 21, 2016, in this handout image from NASA.

Emily Lakdawalla has the brand new flyby images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

«It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on — and beneath — the ocean floor of an icy moon,» said the paper's lead author Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

These composite images show a suspected plume of material erupting two years apart from the same location on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

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.

According to two science papers, the results are the first clear indications an icy moon may have similar ongoing active processes.

Understanding how these jets works may help researchers understand more about what's happening beneath the icy moon's surface — whether it has an underground ocean, for example.

Scientists say they've discovered evidence of a watery ocean with warm spots hiding beneath the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

Since the unexpected discovery in 2005 that Saturn's icy moon actively vents gas, the Cassini spacecraft has buzzed the little body dozens of times.

Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission conjecture that this is how water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas (H2).

In October 2008, Cassini flew very close to the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

Astronomers have spotted the organic molecule methanol surrounding the icy moon.

Ammonia, in addition to sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate found at Occator, has been detected in the plumes of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn known for its geysers erupting from fissures in its surface.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus is the latest target in the perennial excitement around finding extraterrestrial life.

Underrated compared with Jupiter's icy moon Europa, Enceladus is one of the most fascinating objects in the Solar System.

© John Whatmough — larger image (Artwork from Extrasolar Visions, used with permission) Planetary candidate «b» depicted with rings and an icy moon, as imagined by Whatmough.

While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was «on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history» during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.

During its mission at Saturn, Cassini discovered plumes of water being vented into space from the icy moon Enceladus.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa is a major target of astrobiology research in light of the possibility that it offers a habitable environment in the Solar System.

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.

«Unless Europa has been expanding within the last 40 to 90 million years, there has to be some process on this icy moon that's able to accommodate a large amount of new surface area being created at dilational bands.»

Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, shoots water near the farthest point in its orbit from Saturn, when the tidal forces cause cracks at the moon's south pole to open.

Jupiter's icy moon Europa squirts water like a squishy bath toy when it's squeezed by the gas giant's gravity, scientists say.

As this visualization shows, the icy moon may look tiny next to our own planet, but it's got 2 - to 3 - times as much H2O as we have here on Earth.

An enhanced - color mosaic of Saturn's icy moon Tethys.

An artist's impression shows Jupiter's icy moon Europa shooting plumes of water vapor from around its south pole.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a still and partially sunlit Enceladus, the icy moon of Saturn, in this image released on Dec. 23, 2013.

NASA elected to steer Galileo into Jupiter in 2003, and Cassini into Saturn in 2017, to remove the small threat of these spacecraft crashing into an icy moon and potentially contaminating each surface.

There are three other missions as part of this initiative, including JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer, an L - class mission intended for a 2022 launch), Solar Orbiter (M1, intended for a 2017 launch), and Euclid (M2, intended for a 2020 launch).

For example, the spacecraft spotted geysers of water vapor and other material blasting from the south pole of the icy moon Enceladus.

NASA has released a report outlining goals for a proposed mission to the surface of Jupiter's icy moon.

For fourteen more orbits, the spacecraft focused on ice, water, and fire: the icy moon Europa, which might have an ocean; Jupiter's majestic thunderstorms; and the fiery volcanoes of Io.

This week, walk like an elephant — very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini's mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to untie themselves with Online News Editor David Grimm.

But he says there is not yet enough evidence to know whether the icy moon boasts hydrothermal activity, which would provide energy and key elements necessary for life.

Because the icy moon is not perfectly spherical — and because it goes slightly faster and slower during different portions of its orbit around Saturn — the giant planet subtly rocks Enceladus back and forth as it rotates.

That hints the icy moon might not have formed near Saturn but instead farther out, closer to the birthplaces of Uranus and Neptune.

Planetary science would be boosted by 16 % under the budget, to $ 1.9 billion, with explicit support for Europa Clipper, the agency's mission to make multiple flybys past Jupiter's icy moon, and the 2020 Mars rover.

NASA's New Horizons captured this high - resolution enhanced color view of Pluto's moon Charon, showing the crack on the icy moon.

Silica found in the jets can be produced only in water close to boiling point, indicating that hydrothermal vents are also present in the subsurface ocean — making the icy moon a hot target in the search for life.

«Studying Europa addresses fundamental questions about this potentially habitable icy moon and the search for life beyond Earth.»

In 2005, NASA's Cassini probe saw signs that something within this icy moon of Saturn generates heat and fuels plumes of water that spew out of Enceladus's south pole.

JUPITER»S icy moon Europa may be one of the most promising places to look for alien microbes, thanks to its subsurface ocean.

INSPECTING the behaviour of urine vented from spaceships could help us gain insight into water jets on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, which may contain signs of life.

In its final pass through the liquid plumes of the icy moon, Cassini found molecular hydrogen, indicating favourable conditions for life in the moon's subsurface sea.

Saturn's icy moon spews plumes of liquid and vast amounts of heat from its south pole, probably from an interior ocean.