Sentences with phrase «outer icy moons»
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.
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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.
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.
It envisions the great reshuffling as a brief, violent affair that not only put the outer planets where they are today but also created the Kuiper belt of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, gave the planets scores of oddly orbiting moons, and bombarded the solar system with a rain of asteroids and comets so fierce that it would have cooked all but the deepest subterranean life on early Earth.
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.
New Horizons» flyby of the dwarf planet and its five known moons is providing an up - close introduction to the solar system's Kuiper Belt, an outer region populated by icy objects ranging in size from boulders to dwarf planets.
The club of «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with subsurface oceans in common parlance — gains new members with each new mission to the outer solar system.
«The inside of the moons is similar to how blood splatter is modeled in games and the outer, icy crust is similar to modeling clothes and how they move.
Although Kargel's research focused on the icy moons of the outer solar system, his interest was piqued when he saw what he thought was a network of sinuous channels meandering through the Argyre impact basin, a region in the southern highlands of the red planet.
Drabek - Maunder says: «Recent discoveries that icy moons in our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities for their habitability.
Yet, as exciting as these findings were, for many members of the scientific community Mars does not represent the ideal place to look for life in the Solar System today, arguing that our searches should focus instead on the icy moons of the outer Solar System, like Jupiter's Ganymede, Callisto, and Europa and Saturn's Titan and Enceladus.
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.
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.
Although 220 km (137 miles) in diameter, the largest outer moon, Phoebe, is dark with a retrograde, highly inclined orbit and so may be a captured icy body from the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt rather than a moon that formed with the giant planet.