NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft (illustrated here with Jupiter in the background ... the same size as our moon but hides a vast ocean beneath its icy exterior, potentially containing twice ...

Mike Walker '66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, has unveiled groundbreaking research that could transform our understanding of icy ocean worlds across the solar system. The study published ...

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Scientists estimate that a global ocean with more than twice the amount of water in Earth’s oceans exists beneath Europa’s thick icy shell ... education, art and math. The message of ...

NASA's Europa Clipper probe is finally on its way to the icy ocean moon of Jupiter ... Clipper isn't just a spacecraft — it's a work of art ...

It shows a close-up of Europa's chaotic landscape, which is evidence that something below the moon's thick icy crust — like an ocean — is stoking lots of change and deformity. Salty water may ...

A second study led by University of California at Santa Cruz planetary scientist Francis Nimmo suggests that Sputnik Planitia may be so heavy because an ocean is hiding beneath the planet's icy crust.

An ocean exists beneath the thick, icy surface of Enceladus, and plumes of material regularly release from geysers at the moon’s south pole. That material becomes incorporated into Saturn’s ...

The Saturn moon Enceladus harbors a big ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust that may be capable ... but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for ...