Sentences with phrase «liquid water ocean»

A world with an iron core, rocky mantle and enough water on the surface to create liquid water oceans that could support life.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system, according to new NASA research.

The scientists think hydrogen peroxide is an important factor for the habitability of the global liquid water ocean under Europa's icy crust because hydrogen peroxide decays to oxygen when mixed into liquid water.

Heat generated by the gravitational pull of moons formed from massive collisions could extend the lifetimes of liquid water oceans beneath the surface of large icy worlds in our outer solar system.

Illustration of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus showing a global liquid water ocean between its rocky core and icy crust.

With the help of missions that have gone before Curiosity, we know that Mars was once a wet world with liquid water oceans that tell the story of an ancient Mars that was much warmer than it is today.

Scientists don't want to risk a run - in between Juno and any of the icy moons, such as Europa, which could conceivably harbor life in its buried liquid water ocean.

In our own solar system, two moons — Enceladus and Europa — have already proven themselves worthy prospects for supporting liquid water oceans and even life.

Furthermore, since Europa lies inside Jupiter vast magnetosphere, the latters» magnetic field lines are passing right through the moon itself, creating an induced magnetic field near its surface, with the underground liquid water ocean acting as a conductive material.

If such findings were indeed to be uncovered on Charon, they would provide strong evidence for the existence of past liquid water oceans on the interior of the faraway frigid moon.

What about liquid water oceans on alien worlds?

When hydrogen and oxygen combine in a planet's atmosphere, they can ignite into a ball of fire and then leave behind liquid water oceans that would be good for life

Earth 2.0 would be a rocky planet the size of our own, orbiting a star like the sun at a distance where the surface temperatures would allow liquid water oceans, assuming the planet was sheathed in an atmosphere containing greenhouse gases.

We think it has a thick liquid water ocean which is thousands of time more voluminous than any water on Enceladus.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Europa has long been a high priority for exploration because it holds a salty liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust.

-LSB-...] with hypotheses including that of a possible shared atmosphere between Pluto and Charon, to the possible existence of past liquid water oceans inside Charon billions of years ago.

During La Ninas, upwelling takes some of the coldest liquid water the Ocean has and places it in an equatorial region and then as it is blown to the West the Sun warms it.

«If so, this planet could have the right temperature to support liquid water oceans.»

A photo montage showing the size of the Earth compared to that of several outer Solar System moons, which are believed to host underground liquid water oceans that could be potentially habitable.

«The Galileo spacecraft left us with just enough information to feel confident about the pressence of [Europa's] global liquid water ocean, but not enough information to know whether or not that ocean is in fact habitable,» says Hand.

Three are firmly in the «habitable zone,» with enough starshine to have liquid water oceans, as long as they have Earth - like atmospheres.

Although its surface is an airless landscape of cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.

Contrary to the toxic hellscape that is present - day Venus, the planet might have had temperate, Earth - like temperatures and liquid water oceans 3 billion years ago, Gizmodo reports.

Beneath an ice layer about 10 to 15 miles (15 - 25 kilometers) thick, the moon is thought to harbor a liquid water ocean, possibly warmed by geologic processes originating in the planet's core.

A microbe found on Earth has been shown to survive happily in conditions known to exist on Enceladus, which has a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust.

Previous scientific findings point to the existence of a liquid water ocean located under the moon's icy crust.

Astrobiologists are excited about the possibility of exotic forms of «methane life» on the surface of Titan, but it's yet another moon in the outer solar system with a liquid water ocean that might be habitable for life as we know it.

Europa is an incredibly exciting science target, as it's believed to have a 100 - kilometer - thick (62 miles) outer layer of water, with water ice on top (it's very cold out there) and a liquid water ocean beneath that.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

The Galileo and Voyager missions provided evidence that Europa also has a liquid water ocean under an icy crust.

These peculiar planets would still be tidally locked to their star, with one hemisphere a constantly baked desert and the other hemisphere in deep freeze, but there would be a region between day and night where the conditions are just right for a liquid water ocean to circle the world between the darkness and light.

These lakes, that would be located deep in Europa's icy crust, could be communicating with the liquid water ocean below, while providing it with chemical elements from the surface that would be a valuable energy source to any potential life forms.

The team would like to develop and use even more accurate models of tidal heating and TNO interiors to determine how long tidal heating can extend the lifetime of a liquid water ocean and how the orbit of a moon evolves as tidal heating dissipates energy.

The team would also like to discover at what point a liquid water ocean forms; whether it forms almost immediately or if it requires a significant buildup of heat first.

The Galileo and Voyager missions provided evidence that Europa also has a liquid water ocean under an icy crust.