October 2018
Looking for life on Enceladus with IceMole
... The current most plausible hypothesis about where life might emerge and flourish in the oceans of the icy moons, involves possible hydrothermal vents on the ocean bottom, fuelled by a process called chemosynthesis. If microbial life on Enceladus has...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... head to Europa in the early 2030’s. It will also visit and spend time analysing Jupiter’s other large icy moons, Ganymede and Callisto. For the study of the plumes on Europa, simulations show that during the flybys...
18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
..., (19th December) at around 12.49 p.m EST, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will get its final close-up look of Enceladus, Saturn’s icy moon that has proved to be one of the great triumphs of Cassini's historic mission at Saturn, before the spacecraft heads...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket ...hold oceans of liquid water at depth and ESA’s mission aims to establish whether the moons might also have the conditions needed to sustain life. JUICE, a €1.6 billion (£1.4 ...
24 January 2020
New study suggests Enceladus' oceans more habitable than previously thought
...Researchers had detected other organic molecules coming from the icy moon before, but this was the first time anyone ...tantalising hint that habitable conditions could exist beneath the moon's icy crust,” concluded SwRI's Dr. Hunter Waite, principal ...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute Fortuitously, Enceladus is not the...
