Sentences with phrase «icy satellites»

Low scattered - light capability with coronagraphy and high - resolution spectroscopy enables to visualize neutral atmosphere and plasmas escaping from icy satellites of Jupiter and Saturn as well as Io that has active volcanoes.

Nobody had ever thought of this roughly 300 - mile - wide icy satellite as anything special — until the Cassini spacecraft witnessed geysers of water vapor blowing out from its surface.

These forces occur on Earth in glacial ice as it flows due to gravity, and in space as icy satellite bodies, such as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, respond to tidal forces from their parent bodies.

These planetary icy satellites greatly intrigue scientists with their potential to hold vast oceans under the ice, and possibly, to support life.

Its H2O ice — rich surface is unlike other outer solar system icy satellites in exhibiting distinctly reddish tholin coloration around its northern pole as well as a few highly localized patches rich in NH3 ice.

«For icy satellites, resurfacing is generally associated with eccentricity tides, but these are not a viable heat source today for Pluto or Charon, whose orbital eccentricities are fully damped.»

Of that, $ 175 million is directed to the new Europa mission, plus an additional $ 25 million for «icy satellites surface technology» development.

Citing Mars sample return, an upcoming mission to Jupiter's ocean - harboring moon Europa and possible future probes that could visit other icy satellites, Maynard engaged the audience of scientists with the stated intent of changing how they think about the process.

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.

Using computer modeling, chemists from MIPT and Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) have found out which molecules may be present in the interiors of Uranus, Neptune, and the icy satellites of the giant planets.

The interiors of the icy satellites of giant planets, such as in Jupiter's moon Europa, have conditions where carbonic acid could form.

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.

As a researcher at Brown University in the late 1990s, Pappalardo worked on the Galileo mission when the first detailed pictures of the planet's icy satellites were beamed back to Earth.

In September Galileo will plunge into Jupiter's atmosphere, a strategy devised to prevent the spacecraft from contaminating Europa, the icy satellite that some scientists say could harbor life.

Apart from radial diffusion, this model considers other important physical processes governing radiation belt dynamics, and in particular, wave - particle interactions and losses due to the rings, the icy satellites and their exospheres (Lorenzato et al. 2012).

Also on the chopping block, according to The Verge, would be a proposed mission to place a lander on Jupiter's moon Europa — although the Europa Clipper mission, which will conduct a flyby of the icy satellite, remains a go.