Sentences with phrase «subsurface ocean of water»

Taking into account the dwarf planet's size and interior heat flow, which is around two percent that of Earth's, the team discovered that the temperatures and pressures at play below Sputnik Planitia could give rise to a viscous, slushy subsurface ocean of water ice.

The frigid satellite has long been thought of as candidate for possible microbial life due to its vast subsurface ocean of water.

Scientists comparing radar images from the Cassini spacecraft with geophysical models say that the three ridges in this image, released yesterday, were created when Titan's gradual cooling after its formation caused partial freezing of the moon's subsurface ocean of water and ammonia.

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An important discovery was that of water clusters and charged dust particles in plumes at Enceladus, helping us to understand that it has a subsurface ocean.

The subsurface ocean of Europa contains more than twice as much water as Earth's oceans.

Although no one can say for certain whether the subsurface ocean supplies the water that has been seen spraying out of the tiger stripes on Enceladus's surface, the scientists say that it is possible.

Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.

The amount of rocking of the magnetic field, caused by its interaction with Jupiter's own immense magnetosphere, provides evidence that the moon has a subsurface ocean of saline water.

New NOAA - led research maps the distribution of aragonite saturation state in both surface and subsurface waters of the global ocean and provides further evidence that ocean acidification is happening on a global scale.

Astronomers know very little for certain about Ceres, but based on indirect evidence, they speculate that it is a world of clay and ice, and possibly even has a subsurface ocean of liquid water, preserved from the very creation of the solar system.

The water will migrate downward through slushy ice to the subsurface ocean within a few tens of thousands of years, researchers reported today at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid.

A planet with the same fraction of water as Earth could keep a subsurface ocean liquid if it was 3.5 times Earth's mass.

Characterizing the ice shell and any subsurface water, and the nature of surface - ice - ocean exchange

Data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope suggest that plumes of water vapor hundreds of kilometers tall, possibly originating in a subsurface ocean, spew from the moon's south pole.

There's geological evidence for occasional water upwelling from Europa's subsurface ocean — a process similar to the upwelling of magma from Earth's mantle.

The moon's south pole has strange, warm fractures, and plumes of liquid water from a subsurface ocean many believed was impossible in such a small, cold world.

Astronomers can learn how to study the plumes of subsurface ocean water spewing from icy moons like Saturn's Enceladus from an unlikely source: Space toilets.

Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA's New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

Conditions in its subsurface global water ocean are thought to be similar to those deep in Earth's oceans, where a wide variety of life thrives.

With the help of the European Huygens lander, it explored the stunningly dynamic atmosphere of Titan, discovering vast lakes of liquid methane and uncovering a vast subsurface ocean of liquid water.

The search for this subsurface ocean warmed up after scientists discovered plumes of mineral - rich water vapor squirting out of cracks near the south pole.

The mission objectives are to characterize the ice shell and any subsurface water, understand the habitability of Europa's ocean, and to understand the formation of surface features.

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.

Closer investigation of these plumes, originating from geysers blasting from polar fissures in Enceladus» icy crust, revealed this water was coming from a warm subsurface salty ocean and the water was laced with hydrocarbons and ammonia, or «many of the ingredients that life would need if it were to start in an environment like that,» Soderblom tells HowStuffWorks.

If this is the case, we might also find Europan planets with an abundance of subsurface oxygenated water, which could bubble out to form habitable caves in the ice above a cold ocean.

«If those plumes are connected with the subsurface water ocean we are confident exists under Europa's crust, then this means that future investigations can directly investigate the chemical makeup of Europa's potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.

This artist's impression of the interior of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows that interactions between hot water and rock occur at the floor of the subsurface ocean — the type of environment that might be friendly to life, scientists say.

Highly cited Holland et al 2008 (Acceleration of Jakobshavn Isbræ triggered by warm subsurface ocean waters) uses 20 year grided dataset of subsurf ocean T from commercial fishing industry.

The survival of the Antarctic ice shelves including these is dependent on the temperature and salinity of the subsurface ocean water.

This includes maintaining Argo, the main system for monitoring ocean heat content, and the development of Deep Argo to monitor the lower half of the ocean; the use of ship - based subsurface ocean temperature monitoring programs; advancements in robotic technologies such as autonomous underwater vehicles to monitor waters adjacent to land (like islands or coastal regions); and further development of real - or near - real - time deep ocean remote sensing methods.

The upper 3 meters of the world's oceans hold more heat than the entire atmosphere, so continual ventilation of just 10 meters of warmer subsurface water will affect the global average for decades.

You missed the subsurface waters (Ocean Heat Content) of the tropical Pacific in your heat pump description.

Warming of surface ocean waters is well known, but how the subsurface waters are changing is less clear.

«The subsurface ocean steric [water - heating] expansion is found to contribute rates of 0.78, 0.40, 0.36, 0.07, 0.06, and 0.05 mm / yr from 1996 — 2006 between 300 — 700 m, 700 — 1000 m, 1000 — 2000 m, 2000 — 3000 m, 3000 — 4000 m, and 4000 — 6000 m, respectively.»

That's primarily because «The Blob» itself is thought to largely be a side - effect of the multi-year persistence of the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge, which suppressed the North Pacific storm track and prevented the vertical mixing of colder subsurface ocean waters toward the surface.

The study found that the Pacific Ocean is the main source of the subsurface warm water but some of these waters have already been pushed to the Indian Ocean.

Reduced equatorial cloud cover during La Nina (due to the cooler sea surface temperature), combined with the strong upwelling (Ekman suction) in the eastern equatorial Pacific, does indeed lead to greater warming of the ocean - because it's bringing cool subsurface water to the surface, where it can be heated by the sun.

Thus, the static stability of the near - surface water increases and the convective mixing of cold surface water with the relatively warm subsurface water is reduced, thereby contributing to the reduction of sea surface temperature in the Circumpolar Ocean.