Sentences with phrase «studies icy worlds»

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

Not exact matches

«Since most of these icy worlds are incredibly small and faint, it's exciting to find a bright one that is easier to study, and which is on an interesting orbit.»

Even if Pluto's ocean is really now just ice, Keane says, these new studies of Sputnik Planitia reveal a powerful and unique feedback between Pluto's climate and orbital evolution that could also operate on other icy worlds in the outer solar system.

Now, however, two studies published Wednesday in Nature are strengthening the case that Pluto's icy heart contains a warmer, wetter inner world.

Though a previous geological study by Louise Prockter and Simon Kattenhorn made the case that something like subduction could be happening on Europa, it wasn't clear exactly how that process would work on an icy world..

Ice worlds beyond the orbit of Neptune known as Trans - Neptunian Objects may have liquid oceans beneath their icy surface, a NASA study suggested.

The water - rich moon is «one of the few places beyond Earth where we can watch geology happen in real time, giving us a primer for understanding other, less active, icy worlds,» John Spencer, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved in the study, wrote in a commentary.