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...
21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
...been funded by NASA to test technology suitable for ocean world exploration. The InVADER project is a public/private... in similar environments when deep-sea missions to our nearest ocean-worlds get underway. InVADER is also equipped to take pictures...
18 November 2016
Pluto's heart is an ocean of slushy ice
.... However this new data suggests that a thick, heavy ocean may serve as a "gravitational anomaly," or weight, which...crust. As the object impacted the surface, if a subsurface ocean existed, it would create an upwelling of water that pushing up...
23 September 2019
Venus may once have had oceans says a new study
... today - a world mostly covered by smooth volcanic plains interjected with two highland "continents”. In these simulations, a deep ocean averaging 310 metres, a shallow layer of water averaging 10 metres and a small amount of water locked in the soil...
25 September 2020
Alien Oceans - The Search for Life in the Depths of Space
...the story is not really about humans, it’s about life in the oceans of far-away moons. In 15 chapters, the author takes us from...itself. One day we’ll know whether there is life in alien oceans; until then books like this will continue to fire our imaginations…...
07 October 2016
Proxima b may be be home to oceans, says CNRS
... CNRS research institute, have concluded that Proxima b may an “ocean planet”, making it quite similar to Earth. The planet's mass ... this case, Proxima b would be covered by a single, liquid ocean 200 km deep," said the CNRS. "In both cases, a thin,...
