A team of researchers led by Niccolò Maffezzoli, “Marie Curie” fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of California, Irvine, and an associate member of the Institute […]
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Ice Planet Update: State of the Cryosphere Report 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage
In the State of the Cryosphere 2024 – Lost Ice, Global Damage report, over 50 leading cryosphere scientists warn of vastly higher impacts and costs to the global economy given […]
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Webb Telescope Studies The Weather On Titan – A Prime Astrobiology Target
A science team has combined data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the Keck II telescope to see evidence of cloud convection on Saturn’s moon Titan in the […]
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Ice Planet Exploration: A Dataset Of Antarctic Ecosystems In Ice-free Lands
Astrobiology.com Editor’s note: Recently the Fram2 mission took four astronaut explorers on an orbital path that covered both of our planet’s polar regions. This was the fist human mission to […]
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Ammonia or Methanol Would Enable Subsurface Liquid Water at the Martian South Pole
The notion of liquid water beneath the ice layer at the south polar layered deposits (SPLD) of Mars is an interesting possibility given the implications for astrobiology and possible human […]
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Ice Planet Recon: Drone Experiment Reveals How Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Changing
For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help […]
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New Map Of The Landscape Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Unveiled
Antarctica’s ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international scientists led from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
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Using Orbital Radar To Explore An Ice Planet
This artist’s concept depicts the NISAR satellite orbiting Earth over Antarctica. Short for NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar, the mission is an equal collaboration between the NASA and the Indian Space […]
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Travel Times of a Descending Melting Probe on Europa
In this study, we calculated the travel times of a thermal probe that descends through Europa’s ice shell. The ice column is simplified to a conductive layer.
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LunaIcy: Exploring Europa’s Icy Surface Microstructure through Multiphysics Simulations
A multiphysics simulation model incorporating a sintering model coupled with the MultIHeaTS thermal solver was developed to study the evolution of icy moons’ microstructure.