Scientists have devised a new way to identify habitable planets and potentially inhabited planets, by comparing the amount of carbon dioxide in their atmosphere, to neighbouring planets.
Ocean world
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A New Way To Characterize Habitable Planets
For decades, science fiction authors have imagined scenarios in which life thrives on the harsh surfaces of Mars or our Moon, or in the oceans below the icy surfaces of […]
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Practicing For Ocean And Ice World Exploration: Mapping Earth’s Strongest Sea Current
Editor’s note: We have mission en route or soon to be launched to visit ice -covered ocean worlds in the Jovian system. Some day we’ll visit Enceladus and other ice-covered […]
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Can Signs Of Life Be Detected On Enceladus?
As astrophysics technology and research continue to advance, one question persists: is there life elsewhere in the universe? The Milky Way galaxy alone has hundreds of billions of celestial bodies, […]
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Monitoring Ice World Surfaces From Orbit: Antarctic Iceberg Sails Away
Editor’s note: Prime targets for Astrobiology missions in the coming decades include ice-covered ocean worlds in the outer solar system such as Europa, Enceladus, Ganymede, Callisto, Mimas, Titan and others. […]
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Global Biosignatures: Climate Change Lends New Color To Earth’s Ocean
Editor’s note: something to keep in mind as we move towards direct observation of the surfaces and atmospheres of exoplanets. ______
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Tricorder Tech: Translation As A Biosignature
Life on Earth relies on mechanisms to store heritable information and translate this information into cellular machinery required for biological activity. In all known life, storage, regulation, and translation are […]
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Reinforcement Learning Allows Underwater Robots To Locate And Track Objects Underwater
Editor’s note: When we send robotic submersibles and rovers to other worlds to search for life in remote and hostile environments, we’re going to our droids to be as smart […]
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The Modulation Effect Of Ice Thickness Variations On Convection In Icy Ocean Worlds
It has been long puzzling whether the ice thickness variations observed on Enceladus can be sustained sorely by a polar-amplified bottom heating. The key to this question is to understand […]
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Phosphate, A Key Building Block Of Life, Found On Saturn’s Moon Enceladus
An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn’s moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led […]