Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from
a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Not exact matches
But a few billion years ago a slightly fainter sun might have allowed for a relatively cool Venus, one where
liquid water could have pooled in
vast oceans that were friendly to life.
Schimdt has found evidence that warm
ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing
vast pockets of
water, sometimes holding as much
liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.
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.
KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty
water from the
vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.