Sentences with phrase «volcanic moon»

The missions would: return a sample from an icy comet, probe gas giant Saturn, explore the surface of fiery Venus, return a sample from a huge impact basin on the moon, visit asteroids orbiting the sun with Jupiter, repeatedly fly by Jupiter's radiation - soaked volcanic moon Io, and plant a network of geophysical observatories on the moon.

Geochemist Erik Hauri at the Carnegie Institution for Science found water particles trapped inside rock crystals in volcanic moon rocks, a startling sign that the moon has far more water than scientists believed.

An illustrated cross-section of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io, including a thick magma ocean (red), as revealed by Jupiter's bent magnetic field lines (blue).

Now, astronomers have used a large ground - based telescope to observe the volcanic moon in far - infrared wavelengths, where certain ranges of radiation from the moon's surface get absorbed by the sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere.

The charged magnetic fabric drapes over the volcanic moon Io and its edges even tickle the rings of Saturn.

And not only does Juno have to shield its instruments from solar wind (energized particles emitted from the sun), it also faces radiation created when the volcanic moon Io spits gas into Jupiter's magnetosphere where it too becomes ionized and energized.

Jupiter's giant, spectacular polar aurorae are created by the effects of the magnetic field of the planet combining with gases from the volcanic moon Io.

Frost and sulfuric lava cover the volcanic moon, while red - glowing lava is visible beneath the blue sunlight - scattering plume.

The particles hitting Jupiter come not just from solar storms and other galactic detritus, like those that create the auroras on Earth; the strong magnetic pull of Jupiter's poles also pulls in particles created by eruptions on Jupiter's volcanic moon Io.