Scientists based this image on a model of data from NASA’s Galileo mission and data from an instrument on NASA’s Cassini mission that studied warm regions of Saturn’s moon Enceladus […]
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Animal Life Discovered Below The Seafloor at Hydrothermal Vents
The discovery of animal life below the seafloor at hydrothermal vents in the East Pacific Rise is reported in a Nature Communications paper. The research sheds new light on the […]
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SwRI-Developed Instruments Will Study Potential Habitability Of Europa
Two Southwest Research Institute instruments were launched aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft on Oct. 14 from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center. The spacecraft is designed to conduct a detailed reconnaissance […]
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The Europa Clipper Astrobiology Expedition Is Underway
The Europa Clipper Astrobiology Expedition is underway. The Europa Clipper spacecraft has separated from the Falcon Heavy’s second stage and has begun a 5 1/2 year journey across the inner […]
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An Ancient And Impure Frozen Ocean On Ceres Implied By Its Ice-rich Crust
Ceres is a key object in understanding the evolution of small bodies and is the only dwarf planet to have been orbited by a spacecraft, NASA’s Dawn mission.
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Europa Clipper: Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-Surface (REASON)
The Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) is a dual-frequency ice-penetrating radar (9 and 60 MHz) onboard the Europa Clipper mission. REASON is designed to probe […]
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Through-Ice Acoustic Communication For Ocean Worlds Exploration
Subsurface exploration of ice-covered planets and moons presents communications challenges because of the need to communicate through kilometers of ice. The objective of this task is to develop the capability […]
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Orbital Biosignature Survey: Lake Erie Algal Bloom
Editor’s note: with the future advent of powerful telescopes that may be able to resolve habitable worlds in images composed of a few pixels, large biological phenomena such as algal […]
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8 Things To Know About NASA’s Astrobiology Mission To Ocean World Europa
The first NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying an ocean world beyond Earth, Europa Clipper aims to find out if the ice-encased moon Europa could be habitable.
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Classifications For Exoplanet and Exoplanetary Systems
When a star is described as a spectral class G2V, we know its approximate mass, temperature, age, and size. At more than 5,700 exoplanets discovered, it is a natural developmental […]