Sentences with phrase «interesting icy moons»
The spacecraft will in coming years be plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, bringing the mission to a fiery end designed to avoid contaminating any of the planet's astrobiologically interesting icy moons.
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Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, already known for spitting plumes of water into space, just got even more interesting.
Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.
Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.
Now, Waite is interested in applying mass spectrometry to determine Europa's surface composition, data that could clarify how the moon's icy surface interacts with the liquid oceans below.
Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean - bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other «ocean worlds» in our solar system and beyond.
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.