Decades before any probe dips a toe—and thermometer—into the waters of distant ocean worlds, Cornell astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures based on the thickness of ...

Cassini captured this image of Saturn with it’s largest moon, Titan, in the foreground on August 29, 2012. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn’s ...

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Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves ...

New Delhi: NASA’s Juno spacecraft, the most distant operational planetary orbiter has provided a new measurement of the ice shell on the Jovian moon of Europa. Data from the Microwave Radiometer (MWR) ...

Europa, one of Jupiter’s many moons, is thicc. Its icy shell is, at least. Data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft indicate that the moon’s outer ice shell is far thicker than previously believed, reaching ...

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system. Reading time 2 minutes Europa, one of Jupiter’s 95 moons, is encased in a shell of ...

Airplane wings that don't ice up or solar cells that generate electricity even in winter - ice-free surfaces are important for many applications. A team of scientists has now studied an Antarctic ...

Astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting oceanography from space. Cornell ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University astrobiologists have devised a novel way to determine ocean temperatures of distant worlds based on the thickness of their ice shells, effectively conducting ...