Sentences with phrase «liquid ocean»

Data taken by telescopes and other scientific instruments suggest that the moon has a massive liquid ocean under its surface.

That's why moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, among others, may be able to maintain liquid oceans beneath their...

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That's why moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus, among others, may be able to maintain liquid oceans beneath their thick icy surfaces.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

Geophysical evidence has long suggested it boasts a salty, liquid ocean between its frozen shell and rocky core.

If a migrating exoplanet dragged a Europa - like moon closer to its host star, the moon's icy shell could melt into liquid oceans and breathable air

Galileo confirmed the existence of Europa's buried liquid ocean.

Images from NASA's Galileo probe a few years ago, coupled with previous observations, suggest that Europa's ice - covered surface may conceal a global, liquid ocean tens of kilometers deep.

Nimmo is among a growing cadre of scientists who believe the search for life beyond Earth should be focused on selected moons of Jupiter and Saturn, where liquid oceans or lakes are believed to exist beneath the frozen ground.

Data collected by Cassini confirmed the existence of a sub-surface liquid ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's enigmatic moons.

A present - day liquid ocean could be hiding beneath the icy crust of Pluto.

Enceladus may be covered in an icy shell, but beneath the surface lies a globe - spanning liquid ocean about 37 miles (60 km) deep.

And a «lot of water» here means hundreds or thousands of Earth oceans's worth of water, completely covering the silicate mantle of the planets, most likely in hundreds of km - thick high - pressure water ice layers, below thick liquid oceans or high - pressure steam atmospheres.

Based on new data from the W. M. Keck Observatory about Jupiter's moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from the icy moon's global liquid ocean and reach the frozen surface where they are bombarded with sulfur from volcanoes on Jupiter's largest moon, Io.

Also, discoveries primarily due to the Galileo space probe (launched in 1989) suggest that some of the moons of Jupiter — principally Europa but also Ganymede and Callisto — as well as Saturn's moon Enceladus, might have long - lived liquid oceans under their icy outer skins.

In fact, when Dawn spied a muddy crust on the tiny dwarf planet's surface, scientists suspected it may be the dregs left behind when the original outermost layer was stripped away, exposing a once - liquid ocean beneath.

Beneath the six - mile - thick shell of ice that encases the moon Europa may lie a vast liquid ocean.

And in fact if we could warm Mars up, we would once again have a thick atmosphere and liquid oceans.

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

«It is easier to imagine that the salts are present in a liquid ocean below the surface,» she says.

He points to the recent discovery of a liquid ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's larger moons, as a prime example.

Under the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, a liquid ocean launches water plumes through the cracks.

«We began to see that it was easy for Ceres in the early, early history to have created a liquid ocean,» McCord says.

Ever since NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto last year, evidence has been mounting that the dwarf planet may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell.

Such a slight increase in temperature would have allowed the planet's liquid ocean to persist for billions of years.

«This scenario requires a liquid ocean,» Johnson said.

However, ancient zircon crystals in sedimentary rocks provide evidence that our planet had liquid oceans, at least intermittently, during this earliest period.

That includes Europa, which is thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust.

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.

Once a period of mountain - building ends, these fluid layers (Earth's upper mantle and Titan's liquid ocean) allow the crust to relax, like a person settling into a waterbed.

Robert Pappalardo of the University of Colorado in Boulder says Greenberg has done some brilliant work in demonstrating the existence of a liquid ocean, but does not agree that the ice is thin.

Their discovery suggests the moon may have a liquid ocean that, like Earth's, picked up salt from rock, Postberg says.

The discovery strengthens the case that the moon has a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, and may even offer a way to taste its seas and search for signs of life.

Just one month before Voyager's arrival, a research team had published the first serious model laying out how a liquid ocean could exist within a planetary body in the chilly outskirts of the solar system.

Enceladus data point to a liquid ocean under the icy crust and hydrothermal vents at the south pole.

Europa is already thought to harbour a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, making the moon one of the main targets in the search for habitable worlds away from Earth.

Because the interiors of icy planetary bodies might also be salty, due to interactions between the ice and the surrounding rocks or a liquid ocean, lead author Livia Eleonora Bove of the CNRS & Université Pierre et Marie Curie in France and the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland and the rest of the team studied the effects of salts on the formation of the ice X from ice VII.

Stone fingerprints of flowing streams, liquid oceans and minerals formed from evaporation confirm that 3 billion years ago, Earth was warm enough for liquid water.

If Enceladus has had a liquid ocean for billions of years, life would have had the chance to emerge and evolve into a more complex form.

Scientists thought that could be a sign of a liquid ocean beneath its frozen shell, but couldn't be sure.

Researchers looked at different ways Enceladus could be generating the heat to maintain the liquid ocean, producing models to find one that fits with Cassini observations.

«We've discovered volcanic plumes at Io, a liquid ocean in Europa, seas and rain and rivers and volcanoes — like it came out of a geomorphic textbook on the Earth — on Titan,» he says.»

If possible, the exoplanet could contain an atmosphere and a liquid ocean.

Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans - Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested.

Earth eventually cooled enough for a crust to form and liquid oceans to appear.