Remove this ad

ocean

Hydrogen Peroxide Could Feed Life on Europa

April 5, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter According to research by NASA astronomers using the next-generation optics of the 10-meter Keck II telescope, Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Europa has hydrogen peroxide across much of the surface of its leading hemisphere, a compound that could potentially provide energy for life [...]

Read the full article →

Enceladus’ Jets Reach All the Way to its Sea

March 19, 2013

Thanks to the Cassini mission we’ve known about the jets of icy brine spraying from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus for about 8 years now, but this week it was revealed at the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference outside Houston, Texas that Enceladus’ jets very likely reach all the way down to the [...]

Read the full article →

An Enormous Arctic Spiral

February 14, 2013

Looking south across the southern tip of Greenland, this satellite image shows an enormous cloud vortex spiraling over the northern Atlantic ocean on January 26, 2013. An example of the powerful convection currents in the upper latitudes, these polar low cyclones are created when the motion of cold air is energized by the warmer ocean water [...]

Read the full article →

Titan’s Gravity Indicates a Thicker, Uneven Icy Crust

December 6, 2012

Color composite of Titan and Dione made from Cassini images acquired in May 2011. (NASA/JPL/SSI/J. Major) It’s long been speculated that Saturn’s moon Titan may be harboring a global subsurface ocean below an icy crust, based on measurements of its rotation and orbit by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Titan exhibits a density and shape that indicates [...]

Read the full article →

Is Triton Hiding an Underground Ocean?

September 7, 2012

Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s largest moon and the seventh largest in the Solar System. It orbits the planet backwards – that is, in the opposite direction that Neptune rotates – and is the only large moon to do so, leading [...]

Read the full article →
Remove this ad

← Previous Entries