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...
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...
19 March 2018
An early start for Mars's oceans?
... in orientation of the planet’s equatorial bulge would cause any oceans to carve out features at different elevations in the landscape. ...proposed in a letter submitted to Nature today, that oceans were already established as Tharsis began to rise. And...
