Enceladus offers our best opportunity for exploring the chemistry of an ocean on another world.
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Some Icy Exoplanets May Have Habitable Oceans And Geysers
A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system) could have oceans of liquid water, an essential […]
Posted inAstrogeology, Europa, Icy Worlds, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Do Oceanic Convection and Clathrate Dissociation Drive Europa's Geysers?
Water vapor geysers on Europa have been inferred from observations made by the Galileo spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Keck Observatory. Unlike the water-rich geysers observed on Enceladus, […]