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

Not exact matches

The photos include close - ups of the gaseous giant, its famous rings, and its enigmatic moons — including Titan, which has its own atmosphere, and icy Enceladus, which has a subsurface ocean that could conceivably harbor microbial life.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

The goal is to keep Juno from disrupting any aliens — microbial or otherwise — that might live in hidden oceans of water below the icy shells of Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede.

Launched in October 1997, the Cassini mission to Saturn included a sophisticated robotic spacecraft that orbited the ringed planet and provided streams of data about its rings, magnetosphere, moon Titan and icy satellites.

Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn, has an albedo of 1.4, the highest known albedo of any celestial body in the Solar System.

The watery depths of Jupiter's moon Europa might interact with its icy crust (as illustrated above), making the existence (and detection) of life there more likely.

After finding signs that Jupiter's icy moon emits repeating plumes of water near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand - in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn's icy moons

One of the mysteries this gives us clues to answering is how Saturn's magnetic bubble, known as its magnetosphere, gets rid of gas from Saturn's tiny icy moon Enceladus.

The second mission extension provided dozens of flybys of the planet's icy moons, using the spacecraft's remaining rocket propellant along the way.

Two new studies hint at a richer picture of what's happening on Saturn's extraordinary icy moon Enceladus.

There Voyager had laid bare vast, surprisingly smooth stretches that told of a past marked by intense internal activity and maybe even a liquid - water layer buried below its icy shell — both on a moon seemingly too small for such phenomena.

Researchers will soon begin studying data from Cassini's gas analyzer and dust detector instruments, which directly sampled the moon's plume of gas and dust - sized icy particles during the flyby.

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.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, already known for spitting plumes of water into space, just got even more interesting.

This heating ought to be weak, but some unknown process seems to be amplifying it, possibly enough to melt a deep ocean of liquid water on Enceladus, or maybe only enough to form smaller pools of water within the moon's icy shell.

He had then cooled the mix to the temperature of Jupiter's icy moon Europa — too cold, most scientists had assumed, for much of anything to happen.

The seemingly bleak icy surfaces of these moons are in fact among the most active landscapes in the solar system.

The moonlets could disperse the icy chunks in the middle A ring as they break up there under the gravitational influence of Saturn and its larger moons.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA — Planetary scientists who dream of probing for microbes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa are already studying similar settings on Earth.

What makes that layer possible are temperatures that approach -20 °C within Jupiter's outer icy moons at certain depths — exceeding the melting point of ice at high pressures.

Such worlds may include Mars, the asteroid Vesta, the dwarf planet Ceres or the icy moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

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

A team of researchers led by Cornell's Radwan Tajeddine examined Cassini data and found evidence that the active south polar region of Enceladus — the fractured terrain seen here at bottom — may have originally been closer to the icy moon's equator.

The presence of sea salt on Europa's surface suggests the ocean is interacting with its rocky seafloor — an important consideration in determining whether the icy moon could support life.

Enceladus — a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn — may have flipped, the possible victim of an out - of - this - world wallop.

The southern pole of Saturn's 300 - mile - wide moon spits an average of 56 gallons of water a second into space via geysers in its icy surface.

A subsurface sea of water might hide beneath the icy crust of Dione, one of Saturn's moons, researchers report online October 9 in Geophysical Research Letters.

They include a robotic arm to scoop samples and others to analyze the chemistry of the Jovian moon's icy surface (SN: 5/17/14, p. 20).

«We started this work motivated to find the types of compounds that might be in comets, icy planets and moons, providing guidance for future NASA missions,» Allamandola adds.

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.

One of the biggest surprises of the Cassini mission was that the icy moon Enceladus is spewing its guts into Saturn's rings.

Ever since 2005, when NASA's Cassini orbiter found plumes of water vapor spilling out of cracks in the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, researchers have sought to learn more about the moon's mysterious interior as a possible abode for extraterrestrial life.

The seismic echoes of Jupiter's icy moons could teach us more about their hidden oceans than any picture — and help us gauge their potential for life

In 2005, NASA's Cassini spacecraft spied jets of water ice and vapor erupting into space from fissures on Enceladus, evidence of a salty ocean beneath the saturnian moon's placid icy surface.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest fly - by of the north pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus — and saw a world covered in craters and cracks

Around the south pole of Enceladus — a 500 - kilometer - wide runt of a moon many expected to be rather inert and uninteresting — the orbiter saw tantalizing signs of activity — plumes of water vapor venting into space from fissures in the icy surface.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

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

Certain tidally stressed moons in the outer solar system, such as Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, harbor oceans of liquid water beneath their icy crusts.

The spacecraft will in coming years be plunged into Jupiter's atmosphere, bringing the mission to a fiery end designed to avoid contaminating any of the planet's astrobiologically interesting icy moons.

The smooth, icy surface of Telesto sets it apart from most other Saturnian moons, which are heavily cratered.

An ocean within Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be intermittently venting plumes of water vapor into outer space, according to a new study in the Astrophysical Journal.

The tiny moon Enceladus, which has a liquid sea below its icy surface and spews geysers of water into space, set behind Saturn as Cassini watched:

I arrive during the last week of field tests for the robotic explorer VALKYRIE, which could one day dive into the ocean thought to hide beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, looking for signs of life.

«I try to imagine how it would be to stand on the surface of this icy object — small enough that a fast sports car could reach escape velocity and drive off into space — and stare up at a 20 - kilometre wide ring system 1000 times closer than the Moon.»

The earlier evidence for water on the moon hinted only at small deposits near the poles, probably left there by the impact of icy meteorites.

The Cassini spacecraft plunged through watery plumes shooting out of Enceladus and got a taste of what is inside the icy moon

With a diameter of about 1,215 km, the France - sized moon is one of largest known objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of icy, rocky bodies beyond Neptune.