Rigidity of Ice Reduces Available Heat
New work by Matsuyama and colleagues suggests that the icy shell of outer satellites may dampen the magnitude of ocean tides and reduce the heat from tides. They found that […]
New work by Matsuyama and colleagues suggests that the icy shell of outer satellites may dampen the magnitude of ocean tides and reduce the heat from tides. They found that […]
Multiple observations suggest that extensive ice sheets have been common and widespread in the subsurface of the northern mid-latitudes of Mars, but how much ice is buried beneath the surface […]
We’re excited to invite abstracts for our session “From the Earth to the Moons: Ice-ocean systems on Earth and Ocean Worlds” (P014). We had a great turnout and valuable cross-disciplinary […]
They’re united by a lofty goal — to investigate whether Jupiter’s moon Europa could harbor primitive life under its icy shell. Last week, a team of scientists and engineers for […]
This year’s annual Geological Society of America meeting features numerous sessions devoted to planetary sciences. We would like to highlight the session titled “Oceans, fire, and ice in the outer solar system (T175).” […]
NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation. The presence […]
As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets […]
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity which may resemble that seen in the deep oceans on […]
NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury’s north […]
We call your attention to a special session on Ice Throughout the Solar System, for the Geological Society of America Meeting, to be held Oct. 19 – 22 in Vancouver. The abstract […]
If the icy surface of Pluto’s giant moon Charon is cracked, analysis of the fractures could reveal if its interior was warm, perhaps warm enough to have maintained a subterranean […]
The largest moon in our solar system, a companion to Jupiter named Ganymede, might have ice and oceans stacked up in several layers like a club sandwich, according to new […]
Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off the moon’s […]
A monster storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010 – as large as any storm ever observed on the ringed planet — has already impressed researchers with its intensity […]
An analysis of gravity and topography data from the Saturnian moon Titan obtained by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft suggests there could be something unexpected about the moon’s outer ice shell. The […]
Thursday, August 15, 2013 1 pm PDT | 2 pm MDT | 3 pm CDT | 4 pm EDT Britney Schmidt (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Julie Castillo-Rogez (Jet Propulsion […]
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter’s moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA’s Galileo spacecraft […]