October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
...of water aren’t always blue. Blooms of microscopic algae, otherwise called phytoplankton, spread over large expanses of the ocean and are visible because of their photosynthetic pigments, primarily chlorophyll. Regional seas, coastal zones and inland...
22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... extensional tectonics on the planet’s surface. Exactly the sort of features observed with New Horizons. Nonetheless, if a subsurface ocean had frozen a sufficiently long time ago, it is suggested that low temperatures and high pressure within Pluto...
November 2017
Geospatial maritime solutions
... global animal protein. Coastal areas within 100 km of the ocean account for an estimated 61 percent of the world’s total...that is used to provide stability to the vessel, in the open ocean, at least 1,000 nautical mile (nm) from land and in deep water...
20 May 2016
Evidence for massive Tsunamis found on Mars
...This wave was composed of liquid water. It formed widespread backwash channels to carry the water back to the ocean," said Alberto Fairén, Cornell visiting scientist in astronomy and principal investigator at the Center of Astrobiology, Madrid. Using...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. "If we want to understand what's going on at the surface of Europa and how that links to the ocean underneath, we need to understand the radiation," Nordheim said. "When we examine materials that have come up from the...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Galileo on the interior composition of Europa, suggest a liquid layer could be there. Estimates of the thickness of the ice-ocean layer range from 80-150 km, of which the ice layer is thought to be between a few and 20 km thick. Habitability Having...
