Sentences with phrase «with icy crust»
The watery depths of Jupiter's moon Europa might interact with its icy crust (as illustrated above), making the existence (and detection) of life there more likely.
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An icy crust is forming on my cheeks and nosedespite the protection of a face mask, and my feet have begun to burn with thesharp intensity of an open wound — frostbite, no doubt about that, but there isnothing I can do about it until we camp.
Interior Astronomers hoped the probe would confirm that comets fit the popular model of a «dirty snowball»: an icy core made up of a solid mix of water ice, dirt, and frozen gases like carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide, coated with a thin crust of debris.
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons headed up a team which measured the way that «Oumuamua, reflects sunlight, and found it similar to icy objects covered with a dry crust.
One of Saturn's moons, Dione, has joined the ranks of our solar system's «ocean worlds» — icy moons or planets with oceans beneath their crusts, Astronomy Now reports.
Combined with other discoveries of recent volcanic activity on Mars, those results strengthen the case that Mars could have warm, wet havens hidden beneath an icy crust.
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.
A team of 21 scientists commissioned last summer to evaluate the feasibility of sending a lander to Europa has come up with a box - shaped, thin - legged concept spacecraft capable of drilling into the moon's icy crust to search for life in...
These lakes, that would be located deep in Europa's icy crust, could be communicating with the liquid water ocean below, while providing it with chemical elements from the surface that would be a valuable energy source to any potential life forms.
On June 22, 2011, scientists working with the Cassini spacecraft revealed that the «best evidence yet» of a large reservoir of saltwater beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon, Enceladus.