February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
...be more like Venus with surface temperatures unable to support liquid water or life. While the Giant Impact model is being...Moreno, Slawomira Szutowicz, Geoffrey A. Blake (2011) Ocean-like water in the Jupiter-family comet 103P/Hartley 2, Nature, 478, ...
05 July 2021
Hope probe catches striking pictures of auroras at Mars
...years ago, Mars once had a thicker, warmer atmosphere that allowed liquid water to flow on its surface. It was kept in place by ...to have been generated by a dynamo effect, caused by molten liquid in its core revolving around a solid outer core, in the...
14 April 2023
Europe’s JUICE begins its long journey to Jupiter
.... Like Europa and Callisto, it is thought to have a liquid ocean beneath its icy shell. Speaking from the launch site, Josef... worlds - Callisto, Europa and Ganymede - hold oceans of liquid water at depth and ESA’s mission aims to establish whether the...
October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... the total volatile content in the rock, is about 1 percent, which is higher than expected for lunar anorthosites, as no liquid water is present on the Moon to form hydrous minerals, but it is typical for terrestrial equivalents due to the presence...
04 January 2016
Researchers find a new way to calculate the pull of gravity at the surface of a star
... planet around it is the right size and temperature to have water oceans, and maybe life," said Matthews. Surface gravity depends on...the planet is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist, can help constrain future exoplanet surveys in ...
23 August 2019
Energetic eruption helps astronomers peer deep within Jupiter's atmosphere
... ALMA data found that there is likely a layer of liquid water. “Our ALMA observations are the first to show that ... energetic plumes are triggered by moist convection at the base of water clouds, which are located deep in the atmosphere. The plumes ...
