22 June 2016
Does a subsurface ocean exist on Pluto?
... there are extensional tectonic features, which indicate that Pluto underwent a period of global expansion," Hammond said. "A subsurface ocean that was slowly freezing over would cause this kind of expansion." It is possible that these features were...
20 May 2019
A thin layer of ice-trapped gas stops Pluto's oceans from freezing
... interesting when signs that the ~1,000-kilometre-wide basin on the western half, was hiding a huge subsurface ocean sloshing around under its frozen shell. However, this shell has all the hallmarks of being quite...
26 March 2021
Enceladus could have ocean currents like those on Earth, new study says
... us to place constraints on circulation patterns," Lobo explains. Whats more, it also helps scientists understand which regions of the subsurface ocean might be the most hospitable to life and could one day inform efforts to search for signs of life...
26 May 2021
Underwater volcanoes could be active on Europa
... poles – the latitudes where the most heat is generated. “Our findings provide additional evidence that Europa’s subsurface ocean may be an environment suitable for the emergence of life,” Běhounková said. “Europa is one of the rare planetary bodies...
10 August 2020
Salty dwarf planet Ceres could be hiding an ocean
... their widespread nature prompted scientists to theorise that subsurface fluid activity was responsible for transporting the salts ...to be brought onto habitability through time in these evolved oceans, which are likely to be rich in organic matter,”...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
... radiation," Nordheim said. "When we examine materials that have come up from the subsurface, what are we looking at? Does this tell us what is in the ocean, or is this what happened to the materials after they have been radiated?" Their...
