Titan’s northern high latitudes host many large hydrocarbon lakes. Like water lakes on Earth, Titan’s lakes are constantly subject to evaporation.
Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Posted inAway Teams & Field Reports, Enceladus, Europa, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Tricorder Tech: OWLS – New NASA Astrobiology Tools
A team at NASA JPL has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life.
Posted inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Highest-Resolution Close-Up of Jupiter’s Moon Europa Yet By Juno
Observations from the spacecraft’s pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.
Posted inBiogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
NASA ROSES-22 Amendment 54: C.22 Concepts for Ocean Worlds Life Detection Technology Not Solicited This Year
The goal of Concepts for Ocean worlds Life Detection Technology (COLDTech) is to support the development of spacecraft-based technology for surface and subsurface exploration of ocean worlds such as Europa […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
CO2 Ocean Bistability On Terrestrial Exoplanets
Cycling of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and interior of rocky planets can stabilize global climate and enable planetary surface temperatures above freezing over geologic time.
Posted inImaging & Spectroscopy, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Tricorder Tech: MIT Engineers Build A Battery-free, Wireless Underwater Camera
Scientists estimate that more than 95 percent of Earth’s oceans have never been observed, which means we have seen less of our planet’s ocean than we have the far side […]
Posted inEuropa, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Enhanced RGB Image Of Europa Taken By Juno From PJ45
This Enhanced RGB image of Europa is a composition of 9h38/9h39/9h40 and 9h41
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Controlled Mosaic Of Europa Taken By Juno From PJ45
This Geometrically controlled mosaic of Europa from Juno’s Perijove 45. Pixel scale is 1008 meters per pixel and this view is centered at 11.7 N, 0.6 W.
Posted inEuropa, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Tricorder Tech: Exploring Europa With Silicon-germanium Transistor Technology
Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life.
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
A Day At The Beach For Life On Other Worlds
New simulations show that truly Earth-like exoplanets with oceans and continents, and beaches along the boundaries, may be much more common around red dwarfs than previously expected.