Sentences with phrase «large moon europa»

In the 1990s the Galileo space probe collected convincing evidence that Jupiter's large moon Europa has a global ocean of liquid water beneath its frozen surface.

In December, astronomers announced hints of watery plumes spurting from Jupiter's large moon Europa, potentially giving us a peek into a vast ocean likely to exist beneath its ice.

Not exact matches

The dark, nutrient - deprived environment of the lakes could resemble conditions on Jupiter's moon Europa, which is assumed to hold a large ocean beneath its frozen surface.

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

... If anything, the findings intensify interest in the possibility of life on Mars and large moons such as Titan and Europa, which are suspected of containing liquid water beneath their ice shells.»

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Martian colonies could pack up the spaceship and relocate to Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists believe a large ocean of liquid water hides beneath an icy crust.

She remembers seeing the four largest moons of Jupiter, including Europa, through her school astronomy club's 10 - inch telescope and concluding passionately (if not entirely scientifically) that they were thoroughly awesome.

He first used it to observe the moon and see the shadows cast by its mountains and craters; he went on to catalogue sunspots; and he discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — that are now known as the Galilean moons in his honor.

It is important news for missions such as ESA's JUpiter ICy moons Explorer, a mission planned for launch in 2022, and which aims to explore both Jupiter and three of its largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa.

The surface of Europa — one of Jupiter's four largest moons and slightly smaller than Earth's moon — is riddled with cracks and ridges.

The largest Jovian moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — were first discovered by Galileo in the early 1600s.

Europa's briny ocean may also have an acidity similar to battery acid, rich in the sulfur compounds found on the other large Jovian moons.

«Unless Europa has been expanding within the last 40 to 90 million years, there has to be some process on this icy moon that's able to accommodate a large amount of new surface area being created at dilational bands.»

Crescent view of Europa, one of Jupiter's four large, Galilean moons, in a composite of images made by the Galileo spacecraft...

Enceladus and Europa are tidally squeezed by the gravitational forces of their giant planets and in some cases by large nearby moons.

The four largest moons are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.

Enceladus is often overshadowed by its larger distant cousin, Europa, which orbits Jupiter and the Jovian moon's awesome potential has been widely publicized.

The movements of Jupiter's four largest moons — Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — were captured from June 12 to 29 as Juno traveled closer and closer toward Jupiter, starting when the spacecraft was 10 million miles away until it was 3 million miles away.

Mission objectives: To collect detailed observations of Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa.

To the left of Jupiter (from right to left) are the planet's four largest moons — Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.

To the right of center is Jupiter and on its left are the planet's four largest moons: Europa, Io, Callisto and Ganymede.