03 August 2018
Plate tectonics not needed for life, but UV light is
... enough light to activate the chemistry and could have liquid water on their surfaces. This zone is called the abiogenesis...results showed that stagnant lid planets can sustain conditions for liquid water for billions of years. Some as many as 4 ...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
... know it to exist. The other two necessary ingredients are liquid water and the right chemical ingredients, primarily; carbon, hydrogen, oxygen...that nearly 98 percent of the gas in the plume is water, about 1 percent is hydrogen and the rest is a ...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
.... The combination of the moon’s geological, compositional and induced magnetic field measurements all indicate that a salty, liquid water ocean spanning at least 100 kilometres in depth is sloshing about beneath its icy crust. Taking a peek at what...
12 December 2018
OSIRIS-REx discovers ingredients for water on Bennu
... larger asteroid it broke apart from eons ago had liquid water present on it at some point. Recently analysed data...that together form OH. Although not quite the formula for water (that requires an additional hydrogen atom), these hydroxyls are ...
01 April 2020
Biohybrid can turn CO2 into new products for use on Mars or Earth
...had a thick atmosphere that retained enough heat for liquid water to flow on the planet’s surface. However much ..., besides sunlight, that the hybrid needs to function is water. Although water is produced as part of the synthesis program, it still...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Among these challengers include a team from Cornell that will use an experimental propulsion system that electrolyzes liquid water into oxygen and hydrogen for combustion. Another proposed application of interplanetary CubeSats is in mother-daughter...
