Sentences with phrase «icy satellites of»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

In spite of the icy temperatures in the region, satellite images depict a large ice - free area in the middle of the ice cover.

But another of Jupiter's satellites, icy Europa, is a contender, as are Enceladus and the largest of Saturn's moons, Titan.

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.

However, there were other possible sources of water: interplanetary dust particles produced by cometary activity and asteroid collisions, icy rings, or one of the 60 Jovian satellites.

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.

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.

In the future, Stern said higher - resolution satellite microwave data might come in handy when studying the interactions of Arctic marine mammals with their icy habitat.

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.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ganymede is identified for detailed investigation since it provides a natural laboratory for analysis of the nature, evolution and potential habitability of icy worlds in general, and also because of the role it plays within the system of Galilean satellites, and its unique magnetic and plasma interactions with the surrounding Jovian environment.

The focus of JUICE is to characterise the conditions that may have led to the emergence of habitable environments among the Jovian icy satellites, with special emphasis on the three ocean - bearing worlds, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto.

Analysis of movement data from mark - recapture studies and tracking of adult female bears with satellite radio collars indicated that there are two populations of polar bears in the area, one that inhabits the west coast of Banks Island and Amundsen Gulf and a second that is resident along the mainland coast from about Baillie Islands in Canada to approximately Icy Cape in Alaska.

A new study published in Nature Geoscience details how analysts were able to estimate the extent of Greenland's sub-surface ice despite the fact that conventional radar pinging and satellite readings are incapable of measuring to great depths along the icy coast.

Cooper, J.F., R.E. Johnson, B.H. Mauk, H.B. Garrett, and N. Gehrels, 2001: Energetic ion and electron irradiation of the icy Galilean satellites.