January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... to carve Valles Marineris. With a volume of 9.85 million cubic kilometres, Valles Marineris is the largest canyon on Mars.But if water was not capable of carving it out, what was? Lava. Nonetheless, it still means that 98.5 million cubic kilometres...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
...or recently launched. Following the successful Hayabusa mission, Hayabusa-2, launched in November 2014, will perform a sample return of a water-rich asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx mission to be launched later in 2016 was selected under NASA’s New Frontiers...
26 February 2018
More water on the Moon than previously thought
... previous studies. "We find that it doesn't matter what time of day or which latitude we look at, the signal indicating water always seems to be present," said Joshua Bandfield, a senior research scientist with the Space Science Institute in Boulder...
27 July 2018
A pool of liquid water found under Mars' south pole
... need to be at least several tens of centimetres thick. “This subsurface anomaly on Mars has radar properties matching water or water-rich sediments,” says Roberto Orosei, principal investigator of the MARSIS experiment and lead author of the paper...
20 August 2018
Galaxy should be teeming with water-worlds say researchers
...of around x1.5 Earth radius tend to be rocky planets, while those with a radius of x2.5 Earth radius are probably water worlds". "This is water, but not as commonly found here on Earth", added Zeng. "Their surface temperature is expected to be in the...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... break the bonds of molecules into their constituent atoms. This is a process known as photodissociation and in the case of a water molecule, once it is broken up, the very light hydrogen atoms can escape the exoplanets’ atmosphere. Instruments such...
