Sentences with phrase «icy moon of»

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

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.

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.

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

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.

[Photos: Europa, Mysterious Icy Moon of Jupiter]

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, has an albedo of 1.4, the highest known albedo of any celestial body in the Solar System.

Such worlds may include Mars, the asteroid Vesta, the dwarf planet Ceres or the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

Our best chance to find alien life lies in the vast oceans inside the icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter — and we don't have to leave Earth to start looking

«These findings from Enceladus are highly relevant to exploring the icy moons of Jupiter... [The] results are particularly exciting when considering what could be discovered at Europa and Ganymede.»

Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.

Explore the icy moons of the Jupiter System and tour the Saturnian system in this video of class 8 of Bruce Betts» Introduction to Planetary Science and Astronomy class.

Scientists suspect that inside Europa, one of the icy moons of Jupiter, reservoirs of liquid water exist, the essential element for life on Earth.

The strong reflection seen on Mercury is too large to be caused by a momentary «glint» off a crater wall, and when studied in more detail, shares the characteristics of reflections from the water ice seen on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter.

Yet, as exciting as these findings were, for many members of the scientific community Mars does not represent the ideal place to look for life in the Solar System today, arguing that our searches should focus instead on the icy moons of the outer Solar System, like Jupiter's Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa and Saturn's Titan and Enceladus.

Not exact matches

The photos include close - ups of the gaseous giant, its famous rings, and its enigmatic moons — including Titan, which has its own atmosphere, and icy Enceladus, which has a subsurface ocean that could conceivably harbor microbial life.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

The goal is to keep Juno from disrupting any aliens — microbial or otherwise — that might live in hidden oceans of water below the icy shells of Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

The watery depths of Jupiter's moon Europa might interact with its icy crust (as illustrated above), making the existence (and detection) of life there more likely.

After finding signs that Jupiter's icy moon emits repeating plumes of water near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand - in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn's icy moons

One of the mysteries this gives us clues to answering is how Saturn's magnetic bubble, known as its magnetosphere, gets rid of gas from Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus.

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

Two new studies hint at a richer picture of what's happening on Saturn's extraordinary icy moon Enceladus.

There Voyager had laid bare vast, surprisingly smooth stretches that told of a past marked by intense internal activity and maybe even a liquid - water layer buried below its icy shell — both on a moon seemingly too small for such phenomena.

Researchers will soon begin studying data from Cassini's gas analyzer and dust detector instruments, which directly sampled the moon's plume of gas and dust - sized icy particles during the flyby.

This unprocessed view of Saturn's moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a close flyby of the icy moon on Oct. 28, 2015.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, already known for spitting plumes of water into space, just got even more interesting.

This heating ought to be weak, but some unknown process seems to be amplifying it, possibly enough to melt a deep ocean of liquid water on Enceladus, or maybe only enough to form smaller pools of water within the moon's icy shell.

He had then cooled the mix to the temperature of Jupiter's icy moon Europa — too cold, most scientists had assumed, for much of anything to happen.

The seemingly bleak icy surfaces of these moons are in fact among the most active landscapes in the solar system.

The moonlets could disperse the icy chunks in the middle A ring as they break up there under the gravitational influence of Saturn and its larger moons.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Planetary scientists who dream of probing for microbes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa are already studying similar settings on Earth.

What makes that layer possible are temperatures that approach -20 °C within Jupiter's outer icy moons at certain depths — exceeding the melting point of ice at high pressures.

Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.

A team of researchers led by Cornell's Radwan Tajeddine examined Cassini data and found evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom — may have originally been closer to the icy moon's equator.

The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor — an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

Enceladus — a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn — may have flipped, the possible victim of an out - of - this - world wallop.

The southern pole of Saturn's 300 - mile - wide moon spits an average of 56 gallons of water a second into space via geysers in its icy surface.

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.

They include a robotic arm to scoop samples and others to analyze the chemistry of the Jovian moon's icy surface (SN: 5/17/14, p. 20).

«We started this work motivated to find the types of compounds that might be in comets, icy planets and moons, providing guidance for future NASA missions,» Allamandola adds.

Scientists don't want to risk a run - in between Juno and any of the icy moons, such as Europa, which could conceivably harbor life in its buried liquid water ocean.

One of the biggest surprises of the Cassini mission was that the icy moon Enceladus is spewing its guts into Saturn's rings.

Ever since 2005, when NASA's Cassini orbiter found plumes of water vapor spilling out of cracks in the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon's mysterious interior as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life.

The seismic echoes of Jupiter's icy moons could teach us more about their hidden oceans than any picture — and help us gauge their potential for life

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest fly - by of the north pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus — and saw a world covered in craters and cracks

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.