21 August 2019
InVADER robot to test technology for ocean world exploration
...-covered world along with Ganymede, Callisto and now NASA has given the go-ahead for its Europa Clipper spacecraft to probe it too. But once at this water-rich world, how will scientists go about studying...
02 January 2021
Life beneath glaciers is good news in the search for life on icy worlds
... other worlds, such as on the Jovian moons, Europa and Enceladus. Researchers have long thought that life might...of hydrogen gas, it could help future missions such as NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE - JUpiter ICy moons Explorer - programme ...
04 March 2019
Does life grow like this elsewhere in the cosmos?
...environments akin to those of a hydrothermal vent on Earth, perhaps it is already underway elsewhere in the cosmos such as on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus for example; both of which are suspected of having large liquid salt-water...
22 June 2020
Icy Pluto may have started off hot with an early ocean
... habitability of distant icy worlds increases when subsurface oceans interact with compounds on a sea-floor. Jupiter’s moon Europa – which is larger than Pluto – is another example of where scientists think this process might be currently occurring...
11 March 2019
NASA outlines future Moon to Mars plans
... the Sun will benefit humankind for generations. We will reveal the unknown with missions to Jupiter’s moon Europa and the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. We will continue planning and developing the first...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... in 2014, and then half a century later when a mini submarine was successfully plunged under the ice of Europa, a satellite of Jupiter. A great moment of political unification. This technology was not a special achievement, because the autonomous...
