Sentences with phrase «possibility of liquid water»

Also known as the «Goldilocks zone,» this area is neither too hot nor too cold and the temperature allows for the possibility of liquid water on the surface of the planet.

From those densities, they estimate that the fourth planet out from the star, known as TRAPPIST - 1e, is the rockiest of the seven and the most Earth - like, with the possibility of liquid water on its surface.

Not exact matches

Although the planet's size implies that it is a ball of hydrogen and helium gas incapable of supporting pools of liquid water, the finding raises the possibility that additional, earthlike planets might be discovered around it.

... If anything, the findings intensify interest in the possibility of life on Mars and large moons such as Titan and Europa, which are suspected of containing liquid water beneath their ice shells.»

In 2002, NASA's Odyssey orbiter detected evidence of ice just beneath the surface of the Martian north pole, raising the possibility that during a warm spell liquid water could melt out — a likely requirement for life.

Last summer, two papers published in Nature bolstered the possibility that the plumes originate from buried reservoirs of liquid water (modeled in this image).

Although most of the water on Mars is locked up in ice, the possibility remains that some liquid water could exist in underground aquifers.

Mars scientists have long associated the search for liquid water on red planet with the possibility of life, since the two are closely linked here on Earth.

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.

To go to Enceladus, she added, any lander would need to be very clean as liquid water is in contact with the moon's icy surface, so contamination of the subsurface ocean would be a very real possibility.

Liquid water may exist there, with the consequent possibility of life.

Although no compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life has yet been found, the possibility that biota might be a common feature of the universe has been strengthened by the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets around other stars), by the strong suspicion that several moons of Jupiter and Saturn might have vast reserves of liquid water, and by the existence of microorganisms called extremophiles that are tolerant of environmental extremes.