31 December 2021
Space missions to watch out for in 2022
...’s frigid moons what Cassini did for Saturn’s weird and wonderful moons, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (...giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Data collected from the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
..., the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will be launched to investigate the gas giant and its moons. DLR will ...the launch of which has now slipped from 2018 to 2020 The Moon is also a destination for robotic exploration. Two products are to ...
26 March 2021
Enceladus could have ocean currents like those on Earth, new study says
The globe-spanning ocean on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, which is believed to be at least 30 kilometres...the solar system due to its thick covering of ice, Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, is one of the few places in our cosmic back yard where ...
October 2019
Are we prepared for SETI discovery?
... The Dragonfly mission, due to launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034, will fly to dozens of promising locations on Saturn’s icy moon, Titan, looking for prebiotic chemical processes common on both Titan and Earth, advancing our extraterrestrial search...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...some four times the distance between the Earth and the Moon, at a reasonably gravitationally stable point known as Lagrange ..., in our own Solar System, JWST will turn to the icy moons Europa (Jupiter) and Enceladus (Saturn), studying them for signs ...
24 November 2015
Could Earth be highlighting Hairy Dark Matter?
...from the surface (of Earth), or twice as far as the moon and the density of the dark matter stream is about a ...core to the outer core, similarly density changes can occur on icy moons due to deep oceans. Such changes of density would be reflected...
