13 December 2017
Bright spots suggest Ceres is surprisingly active
...impacting bodies that have exposed bright material that was already in the subsurface. Either that or it had formed in a previous impact event.... and the public, reveal evidence of Ceres' past subsurface ocean, and indicate that, far from being a dead ...
25 May 2018
New research suggests Pluto could be one giant comet
... by liquid water, and that the missing CO could be hidden away in a subsurface ocean. It would not be the first time though, that researchers have postulated that a subsurface ocean exists under Pluto’s icy crust. The jury is not out completely...
14 April 2017
Cassini finds evidence for hydrothermal vent activity on Enceladus
...detection of hydrogen gas in the plumes of Enceladus is suggestive that like Earth, hydrogen is pouring into the Moon’s subsurface ocean from hydrothermal activity on the seafloor. If that is the case, then it is also reasonable to think that microbe...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... of Michigan would use multi-frequency magnetic induction sounding from a compact magnetometer to characterise the subsurface ocean of Europa. Another proposed by Robert Ebert of the Southwest Research Institute is the JUpiter MagnetosPheric boundary...
28 October 2020
Unexpected molecule found in Titan's atmosphere
... times denser than Earth’s, when coupled with its clouds, rain, lakes and rivers, and even a subsurface ocean of salty water, the large moon offers vast appeal in the search for primitive life, “We’re trying to figure...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
... almost certainly be simple and small. Bacteria could conceivably find adequate sustenance in the relentless darkness of a subsurface ocean, but it’s hard to imagine that complex life could. Intelligence on a par with Homo sapiens, which requires...
