New research from Purdue University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL ... The findings also support the idea that ...
this ocean would have frozen, leaving behind an icy crust impregnated with rocky material. Geological formations such as pits and domes support this theory. The team based their research on data ...
particularly after NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave us our first good look at Ceres, which the probe orbited between 2015 and 2018. On known icy ocean worlds such as Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede ...
In the new BBC series Solar System, physicist Dr Brian Cox explores acid rain, ice mountains and nitrogen glaciers on Earth's ...
In 2007, NASA sent the Dawn spacecraft to study Ceres ... “Some of the bright features we see at Ceres’ surface are the remnants of Ceres’ muddy ocean, now mostly or entirely frozen, erupted onto the ...
And some amazing meteorites have even been snapped by NASA's rovers ... at Ceres' surface leads us to wonder if Ceres might be an ocean world that's masquerading as an asteroid.
The mission was launched from NASA ... ocean worlds. These are moons of gaseous planets, such as Jupiter’s Europa, Callisto and Ganymede; Saturn’s Enceladus, Titan and Mimas; Uranus’s Oberon, Umbriel ...
"The findings not only provide further evidence to support the theory of a Martian ocean but also present, for the first time ...
To take the guided tour of Europa, visit trek.nasa.gov/europa, click on the "hamburger" icon on the top left of the screen, ...
such as the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, explored recently by the NASA Dawn mission, or Jupiter's moon Europa, which will soon be explored in detail by the NASA Europa Clipper mission that includes ...
Curtin University has joined forces with NASA, University of Miami, San José State University and the National Institute of ...
Satellite data has enabled researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to develop a new way to measure ocean depth. The technique, which uses imagery captured by the Landsat program, works ...