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Enlarge / Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco speaks on stage at the National Geographic Awards on Thursday, June 14, 2018, at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C. (credit: Taylor Mickal/National Geographic) In its quest to find extant life in the Solar System, NASA has focused its gaze on the Jovian moon Europa, home to what is likely […]
Attention alien hunters: Scientists have identified a deep sea microbe that could possibly survive the ocean floor of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a94b4b8927dc94e67685a4b/master/pass/enceladus.jpg
Enlarge (credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech) On Earth, the heat that drives geology is partly leftover from the planet’s formation and partly the result of radioactive decay. For the smaller bodies of our Solar System, neither of these should be big factors. Yet many of them are geologically active, thanks to heat generated by gravitational interactions. Uneven gravitational […]
Published time: 13 Apr, 2017 18:15Edited time: 13 Apr, 2017 18:28 New research from NASA indicates that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may support microbial life. Details of new findings about ocean worlds in our solar system are being announced live by the agency. NASA scientists have detected hydrogen from hydrothermal vents in ice plumes from Saturn’s […]
Enlarge / The features at Enceladus’ south pole that are associated with the geysers the moon releases into space. (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) If you look at a diagram of the Cassini spacecraft, the most obvious feature is the high-gain antenna used for communication with Earth. But it also has a second, critical function, acting […]
