Sentences with phrase «liquid ocean under»

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

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Under these conditions, iron is as liquid as the water in the oceans.

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

Some scientists believe the dwarf planet harbored a subsurface ocean in the past and liquid water may still be lurking under its icy mantle.

Enceladus is subject to forces that heat a global ocean of liquid water under its icy surface, resulting in its famous south polar water jets which are just visible below the moon's dark, southern limb.

Under the clouds of methane, hydrogen and helium, the sky gradually turns into liquid until it becomes a giant ocean of liquid chemicals.

Under its ice crust, estimated to be 10 km thick, is an ocean of liquid water of over 100 km deep.

Earth's magnetic field is thought to be generated largely by an ocean of superheated, swirling liquid iron that makes up Earth's outer core 3000 km under our feet.

Cassini discovered a liquid - water ocean under the icy surface of the moon Enceladus and, perhaps a victim of its own success, must die to prevent any chance that its warm electric generators might melt their way down into those life - friendly waters.