After years of work to design, build, and run tests, engineers and scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) bid farewell to the Europa Imaging System (EIS) Narrow-Angle […]
Europa
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JUICE Leaves Earth On An Astrobiology Expedition To Jupiter’s Ocean Moons
ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 14:14 CEST on 14 April. The successful launch marks the […]
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Spotlight On Ganymede, JUICE’s Primary Target
A key focus of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will be Ganymede: Jupiter’s largest moon, and an ideal natural laboratory for studying the icy worlds of the Solar System.
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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica – Final System Tests And Completion Of Preparations For Drilling – Part 4
Soon it will be time for the big test of our TRIPLE-IceCraft probe, which is to melt its way through the almost 100-metre-thick ice shelf north of Neumayer Station III. […]
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Ocean Currents May Affect Rotation of Europa’s Icy Crust
Research reveals a new explanation for how the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa rotates at a different rate than its interior. NASA’s Europa Clipper will take a closer look.
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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 3
The seventh day of our Antarctic expedition to test the TRIPLE-IceCraft melting probe begins for me and all the new arrivals in our segregated living area: our joint COVID-19 test […]
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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 2
At the time of our arrival at Neumayer Station III. Technically it is morning, but the long journey has messed up my internal clock.
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Away Team Update: DLR TRIPLE-IceCraft Expedition To Antarctica Part 1
Some regions on Earth are as mysterious as distant celestial bodies – but equally explored. These include subglacial lakes in Antarctica. These lakes lie under a permanent layer of ice, […]
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Spin-Orbit Coupling Of Europa’s Ice Shell And Interior
Europa is an icy ocean world, differentiated into a floating ice shell and solid interior, separated by a global ocean.
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Growth At A Wide Range Of Pressures On Other Worlds
NASA-supported researchers have studied a bacteria on Earth to gain insight into the mechanisms that organisms could use to survive on cold solar system bodies like Mars and Europa.