Sentences with phrase «icy moons like»

Astronomers can learn how to study the plumes of subsurface ocean water spewing from icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus from an unlikely source: Space toilets.

Not exact matches

«We'd like to see if frictional heating on faults of icy moons can explain the geysers of liquid water observed on their surfaces,» McCarthy said.

Ice shells of icy satellites can have warm interiors — approximately 0 degrees C — but surface temperatures as low as -200 degrees C -LRB--330 F), like on Saturn's moon Enceladus, though the team's apparatus does not reach that extremely low temperature.

2003 EL61 looks like a deflated football hurtling end over end through space, dragging along two moons and a tail of icy debris.

Eventually, the spacecraft, like Galileo in 2003, will burn up in the atmosphere to eliminate the possibility it would ever spread contamination from Earth by crashing into one of the gas giant's potentially habitable icy moons.

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.

The large satellites of Uranus show unique geologic features we'd like to understand (such as the tortured - looking surface of Miranda, a small moon with the tallest cliff in the Solar System), while Neptune's satellite Triton is thought to be a captured Kuiper Belt object, similar to Pluto, potentially harboring an ocean under its icy surface.

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

For example, Cassini discovered that the Saturn satellite Enceladus is a mini-world of active jets — geyser - like phenomena that blast out water vapor and ice particles from the huge, salty ocean that lies beneath the moon's icy crust.

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.

«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.

Neptune's moon Triton has active volcanoes that do not spew out hot magma like familiar Earth - bound volcanoes do, but giant jets of icy liquid nitrogen instead.