18 December 2015
Last look at geological activity on Enceladus before Cassini moves on
... Spilker. An artist’s rendering showing a cutaway view into the interior of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, suggested to have a global ocean and likely hydrothermal activity. A plume of ice particles, water vapour and organic molecules sprays from fractures...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
...percent, and is an indication of when the early magma oceans first solidified. Titanium, like other minerals found in basaltic magma...Scientists are thus suggesting that late in the magma-ocean crystallization process, iron-rich pyroxene and ilmenite, ...
18 January 2016
Falcon 9 Launches Successfully, Though First Stage Landing Fails
...-sponsored spacecraft separately from the agency’s commercial cargo and crew programs. Jason-3 is the latest in a series of ocean monitoring satellites dating back more than two decades. The mission is a joint venture of several agencies in the...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
... having to drill through miles of ice, should a future mission to the icy world get the go ahead. "Europa's ocean is considered to be one of the most promising places that could potentially harbor life in the solar system," said...
07 July 2017
Unexpected large methanol find near Enceladus
... the UK, is not thought to be jettisoned directly from Enceladus’s oceans but is a result of the chemical transformation of material spewed by ...icy moons in our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked...
17 June 2020
NASA wants to visit Neptune’s weird moon Triton
... isn't just a key to solar system science - it's a whole keyring: a captured Kuiper Belt object that evolved, a potential ocean world with active plumes, an energetic ionosphere and a young, unique surface,” Mitchell concludes. Trident is one of four...
