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Geologic map of Jupiter's moon Io details an otherworldly volcanic surface
More than 400 years after Galileo's discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter's largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Researchers offer explanation for the differences between Ganymede and Callisto moons
(PhysOrg.com) -- Differences in the number and speed of cometary impacts onto Jupiter's large moons Ganymede and Callisto some 3.8 billion years ago can explain their vastly different surfaces and interior ...
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Jan 24, 2010 |
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Scientists complete first geological global map of Jupiter's satellite Ganymede
Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of the Solar System’s largest moon - and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, icy satellite.
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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JUICE is Europe's next large science mission
(Phys.org) -- Jupiter’s icy moons are the focus of Europe’s next large science mission.
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May 03, 2012 |
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JUICE to Jupiter could be ESA’s next major science mission
The Science Programme Committee of the European Space Agency has recommended that the next major space mission for ESA be an orbiter mission to the Jupiter system named JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer. ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Image of Jupiter from a ground-based telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Jupiter and its moons Io and Ganymede was acquired by amateur astronomer Damian Peach on Sept. 12, 2010, when Jupiter was close to opposition. South is up and the "Great Red ...
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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Oxygen discovered at Saturn's moon Dione
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dione, one of Saturn’s icy moons, has a weak exosphere which includes molecules of oxygen, according to new findings from the Cassini-Huygens mission.
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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Acidic Europa may eat away at chances for life
The ocean underneath the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be too acid to support life, due to compounds that may regularly migrate downward from its surface, researchers find.
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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Two new moons for Jupiter
Advances in technology have lead to the discovery of new planets outside of our Solar System, and now even new moons in our own backyard.
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Feb 10, 2012 |
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Wanted: Habitable moons
As the Kepler space telescope continues to search for potentially habitable planets, it also may reveal moons that could host life. Three new simulations will help astronomers identify rocky satellites that ...
Jan 06, 2012 |
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Pluto's hidden ocean
When NASA's New Horizons cruises by Pluto in 2015, the images it captures could help astronomers determine if an ocean is hiding under the frigid surface, opening the door to new possibilities for liquid water ...
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Nov 24, 2011 |
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Forget exoplanets. Let's talk exomoons
It wasn’t that long ago that astronomers began discovering the first planets around other stars. But as the field of exoplanetary astronomy explodes, astronomers have begun looking to the future and considering ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Alien life more likely on 'Dune' planets
Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, researchers ...
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Sep 02, 2011 |
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