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Astrobiologists say that searching for life on moons such as Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Enceladus is a very complex task. However, the effort can be made simpler by conducting proxy studies here on Earth, specifically at the edges of the Arctic ice sheet.
Both Europa and Enceladus have surfaces covered... |
17 May 2012
06:01 GMT |
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Speaking at the NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, in Atlanta, on April 19, inventor and explorer Bill Stone proposed a new approach to drilling through miles of ice on alien moons. He believes that fiber optics and high-energy laser beams are the way to achieve efficiency in these endeavors.
Celestial bodies su... |
20 April 2012
05:59 GMT |
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In an interesting series of new experiments, scientists sought to figure out just how deep under the ice lifeforms on the Jovian moon Europa would have to be, in order for them to survive. Conditions on the surface are simply too harsh to allow organisms to survive.
The main issue on Europa's surface, other tha... |
4 April 2012
10:04 GMT |
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Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons, is currently thought to be our safest bet for discovering life in the solar system, at locations other than Earth. However, there is a host of challenges that lifeforms would need to overcome in order to survive there, and researchers are now trying to account for them.
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29 March 2012
04:01 GMT |
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Planetary sciences would stand to gain a lot from a potential mission to Europa, one of Jupiter's icy moons. An ocean of liquid water is believed to lie under a thick layer of solid ice, and sending a submarine to scout it out could reveal data about how life evolves, among others. Investigator Steve Squyres, a... |
23 March 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Of all the bodies in the solar system, with the exception of Earth, the Jovian moon Europe is widely considered to be the second-most likely to support basic lifeforms. Now, a new study shows that the liquid water underneath the moon's icy surface may be too acidic for life to appear or endure there.
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2 March 2012
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If and when robotic spacecraft or human explorers reach the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, they could begin exploring it based on data collected by a team of Russian experts currently digging their way into Lake Vostok.
This particular lake is very special. Buried under 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of Antar... |
14 February 2012
05:44 GMT |
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As Russian investigators are getting ready to penetrate Antarctic ice sheets all the way to the submerged Lake Vostok, they are also pondering the implications that their achievement will have on space exploration. They say that the habitat may look just like the ocean on Europa.
This is one of the most interesting... |
7 February 2012
05:24 GMT |
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According to a scientific paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Nature, it would appear that massive volumes of water are trapped under the surface of Europa, one of the most interesting moons around Jupiter.
The data were extracted from a series of observations that NASA spacecraft carried of the ... |
17 November 2011
02:47 GMT |
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Researchers have recently determined that hadal zones in our planet's oceans can be used as proxies for how similar features may look like on alien worlds. Some of these locations may include the Jovian moon Europa or the Saturnine moon Enceladus.
Both these worlds are covered in thick ice, and are suspected o... |
8 November 2011
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A group of investigators has recently demonstrated in a new scientific study that it is entirely possible extremophiles originating from Earth may endure on the Jovian moon Europa. Past studies have shown that meteorite impacts can take these microorganisms to other worlds relatively unharmed.
Researchers also de... |
3 October 2011
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According to the latest decadal report released by the National Research Council (NRC), the Red Planet and the Jovian moon Europa should be the highest priorities on the NASA agenda for the next 10 years. Expeditions there should be conducted as soon as possible. While a lot of ink has been spilled explaining why Mar... |
8 March 2011
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In spite of the fact that the Jupiter moon Europa is one of the most interesting places for science in the entire solar system, a flagship-class mission to investigate it in detail may no longer be on the table.
Officials at NASA hinted at the fact that the budget allotted for planetary probes may decline at the ... |
5 March 2011
04:47 GMT |
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A team of astronomers managed to capture an amazing series of pictures of the South Equatorial Belt feature on Jupiter on November 30, 2010, with a little help from one of the most interesting moons in orbit around the gas giant, Europa. The study was conducted because the trademark atmospheric feature Jupiter had di... |
10 February 2011
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The Europa Jupiter System Mission is a proposed collaboration of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), that will see a spacecraft, or several probes, being sent to analyze the gas giant and its moon and ring systems. Experts from the two agencies met recently to discuss their vision on the flight.At the meeting, ... |
5 February 2011
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A group of researchers drilling underneath the Antarctic ice sheet in 2009 made an amazing discovery when they identified an ampiphod swimming some 12.5 miles away from open water. Researchers now say that the finding has great implications for how life may endure on other worlds.Though many moons in the solar system... |
7 January 2011
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Since Jupiter's moon Europa was first discovered, experts have proposed that it could contain life, given the large spreads of ice covering its surface. Now, a microbe discovered in the Canadian Arctic may finally confirm whether life on the Jovian moon is possible or not. Investigators believe that the new stud... |
14 December 2010
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For many years, researchers have suspected that the Jovian moon Europa contains a hidden underground ocean, but now chemists believe that something else may be taking place on the planet as well. They explain that the deep regions of the moon, and perhaps even its surface, may be home to some fast chemical processes,... |
5 October 2010
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Jupiter's moon Europa is very interesting to astronomers, as it may very well hold a liquid ocean of water just below its surface. However, getting there is a challenge, and researchers are currently working on a way of making it possible. This is the goal of a new research initiative, which seeks to determine t... |
17 August 2010
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In a new set of investigations carried out on Jupiter's moon Europa, researchers determined that its underground oceans contained vast amounts of the chemical oxygen, which is widely considered to be absolutely necessary for life as we know it. The team behind the study says that the element may be present in su... |
27 May 2010
10:48 GMT |
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The Jovian moon Europa is one of the most interesting space objects in our solar system, right alongside Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan and Enceladus. Many astronomers and astrobiologists believe that its thick ice layers hide an ocean of liquid water underneath, which made scientists tremble with excitement. A m... |
30 April 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Europa is perhaps the most famous moon of Jupiter, and for good reason. Data sent back years ago by the Galileo spacecraft hinted at the fact that the small world might in fact be covered in a liquid ocean, although it could be buried as deep as 100 kilometers or more under a thick ice sheet. Still, the prospect of l... |
9 April 2010
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Jupiter's moon Europa is undoubtedly one of the most interesting celestial bodies in the solar system, right alongside Titan and Enceladus, natural satellites of Saturn. This space rock is believed to be covered in an icy cap that may very well be hiding a liquid ocean of water underneath. Cracks in the surface ... |
25 March 2010
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Europa has been one of the favored targets in the solar system for experts looking for signs of life someplace else besides the Earth. Astronomers and astrobiologists have been drawn by the fact that the natural satellite features a smooth, craterless surface, an extended network of deep fractures, as well as a brigh... |
14 October 2009
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Named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa, may be among the safest bets in the solar system, in terms of having the ability to sustain life as we know it, astronomers have recently announced. In the investigations, the experts determined that the massive ocean of liquid water tha... |
9 October 2009
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Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa is one of the safest bets in the Universe of finding life, or, otherwise put, it's one of the few places other than the Earth that astronomers believe it's able to sustain life to some extent. The experts are not talking about mammals, or other higher creatures, but ab... |
6 May 2009
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Despite the fact that Jupiter has a number of approximately 63 named satellites, only four of them are generally referred to as the planet's moons. These four celestial bodies, Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, are also dubbed the Galilean Moons, in honor of the great Italian astronomer. Now, researchers have e... |
9 March 2009
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Even though it may sound like something that comes out of the science-fiction books, the NASA American space agency and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) initiative, along with scientists, psychologists, ethicists, lawyers, representatives of the media and anthropologists, have recently held a thre... |
19 February 2009
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Lake Bonney, an underground lake in the Antarctica, encased in 15 feet (approx 5 meters) of solid ice, was the place where NASA's Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer (ENDURANCE) passed its designated tests, which are among the last it will undergo before leaving Earth for good and... |
28 December 2008
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In their search for habitable worlds, astronomers felt the need to have a clear delimitation among the various classes of planets, but one that was much smaller-scaled than divided them according to what they were made of or according to their size. Thus, the new model was born, which catalogued only those celestial ... |
19 December 2008
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The thought of a cold ocean covered by an extremely thick crust of ice (some scientific theories even estimate it to measure over 100 km in thickness) doesn't really do much for the idea of the moon's supporting even the most elementary forms of life. But a new study suggests that the premises of this theor... |
11 December 2008
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A new NASA/ESA mission has been approved in order to investigate the Jupiterian moons of Europa and Ganymede, as well as low-scale analyses of other two moons of the giant planet, Io and Callisto. The mission, called the Europa-Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) will consist of two orbiters, one developed by NASA that wil... |
28 November 2008
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The Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE) is a submarine device financed by NASA and designed by William Stone, the president of Stone Aerospace Corporation in Austin, Texas. It is conceived in order to explore otherwise unreachable, tremendously cold waters under thick layer... |
13 November 2008
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Jupiter's Europa moon is covered by an icy outer shell believed to be housing a global ocean beneath it, where life could exist. New observations on the moon's surface reveal that the icy shell might have shifted as much as 80 degrees in a matter of only 60 million years, supporting the idea that an ocean m... |
15 May 2008
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Typical cameras on-board orbiters sent in solar system exploration missions can only map the surface of a planet or a moon. Scientists seldom get the opportunity to look under the surface of a cosmic body without actually landing a robotic mission on the respective planet, and even so it would only be effective in st... |
17 April 2008
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The moon Titan is the largest of all about 60 natural satellites orbiting around Saturn. In fact, it is larger than the smallest planet in the solar system, Mercury. Also, Titan is the only moon in the solar system known to have a thick atmosphere around it, filled with organic molecules, precursors to the appearance... |
21 March 2008
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Images of one of Saturn's moon, brought back by NASA's Cassini orbiter, have recently spawn some of the most fierce debates regarding the solar system exploration program. German astrophysicists argue that there is conclusive evidence that Enceladus, a small moon measuring only 504 kilometers in diameter, m... |
7 February 2008
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We've looked and searched our extraterrestrial cousins throughout the whole solar system, and found no evidence that life may exist in our solar system, beyond the borders of our atmosphere. Only one body seems to present a final hope. One of Jupiter's many moons, Europa. The European Space Agency and NASA ... |
8 January 2008
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, may be the only body in the solar system, except Earth, to have a liquid water ocean inside which life could have appeared and evolved. In order to study the remote satellite, scientists have designed a probe similar to a submarine, which will be deployed to Jupiter's moo... |
15 December 2007
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, is the only cosmic body in the solar system that might have an ocean of liquid water under its frozen surface, except for Earth. This represents a great opportunity for astrobiologists who believe that in the ocean life might be present, as diverse as in the oceans on Earth. H... |
14 December 2007
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Newly rolled out screenshots of Combat Mission: Shock Force, (scroll down to take a look) illustrate the aspect of unconventional warfare within the game. Images are fresh so don't think it's anything you've seen before. In addition to the screens, Battlefront has updated the game's official blog ... |
30 May 2007
19:41 GMT |
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NASA has funded an expedition to search for the submerged bottom of the deepest sinkhole on Earth, El Zacatón, in Mexico. A robotic submarine will try to find out more about the geothermal sinkhole and what lives down there.A sinkhole, also known as a cenote, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography ca... |
15 May 2007
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You probably know Europa, though she's not a star... not even a planet in space.Europa is a moon of the planet Jupiter. It is the sixth nearest moon to Jupiter, and the fourth largest of Jupiter's moons. It was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei (and independently by Simon Marius shortly thereafter) and... |
20 April 2007
06:58 GMT |
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Many scientists think that if on the Sun system there were another body than Earth harboring life, that would be Europa, the fourth largest of Jupiter's satellites. A salty ocean was found beneath its icy surface. Europa compasses all the ingredients life requires: liquid water, an energy source (delivered by th... |
16 March 2007
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