Sentences with phrase «of the icy moon»

And how exactly do the grains of rock get to the surface of the icy moon?

This unprocessed view of Saturn's moon Enceladus was acquired by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during a close flyby of the icy moon on Oct. 28, 2015.

For example, the spacecraft spotted geysers of water vapor and other material blasting from the south pole of the icy moon Enceladus.

Europe's JUICE spacecraft will provide us with a detailed regional study of this icy moon of Jupiter.

Although NASA terminated funding in 2005 for a proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (which would have searched for evidence of sub-ice, oceanic life on Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede), the Agency was still funding the development of a robotic submarine for exploring the sub-ice oceans of those icy moons in 2007 (Kathleen M. Wong, New Scientist, December 14, 2007).

For NASA's Cassini orbiter — its fuel dwindling after 13 years exploring Saturn, along with the planet's sprawling rings and dozens of icy moons — the end will come Friday at 7:55 A.M. Eastern time.

«We'd like to see if frictional heating on faults of icy moons can explain the geysers of liquid water observed on their surfaces,» McCarthy said.

The disturbance visible at the outer edge of Saturn's A ring in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be caused by an object replaying the birth process of icy moons.

By simply tracking water as it melted, migrated, and refroze, Schmidt had, in mere months following a trip to the Antarctic, come up with by far the most complete model of the icy moon's chaotic surface.

When Voyager 2 flies by Uranus in January and by Neptune in 1989, it will send back closeup pictures of their icy moons.

This week, walk like an elephant — very far, with seeds in your guts, Cassini's mission to Saturn wraps up with news on the habitability of its icy moon Enceladus, and how our shoes manage to untie themselves with Online News Editor David Grimm.

BOULDER, Colo. — NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn has transformed scientists» understanding of the ringed planet and its retinue of icy moons.

«It's very exciting that we can use these tiny grains of rock, spewed into space by geysers, to tell us about conditions on — and beneath — the ocean floor of an icy moon,» said the paper's lead author Sean Hsu, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dione hangs in front of Saturn and its icy rings in this view, captured during Cassini's final close flyby of the icy moon.

Scientists suspect that inside Europa, one of the icy moons of Jupiter, reservoirs of liquid water exist, the essential element for life on Earth.

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.

Some of the icy moons around Saturn and Jupiter have oceans below the ice crust.