March 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... made of salty ice, perhaps deposited when the impactor punched through the crust of Ceres into a salty ocean below Image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of Kupalo crater, one of the youngest craters on Ceres. It has bright...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...atmosphere which obscures its surface, so it could once be depicted with oceans of soda-water (because of the carbon dioxide in its atmosphere)... have forecast the active volcanoes of Io, the salty ocean below Europa’s icy crust, the giant ice ravines ...
September 2016
URBOCOP: saving planet Earth
...or hundreds of metres in diameter that fall into an ocean can cause a tsunami that would destroy coastal settlements,...impacted Earth, all on land. If one takes into account the ocean masses as well, collisions with Earth happen on average every decade...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...adequate sustenance in the relentless darkness of a subsurface ocean, but it’s hard to imagine that complex life ... distance at which temperatures could be suitable for liquid-water oceans. Red dwarfs also have the advantage of enjoying extremely long...
