News Archive / Tagged: subsurface ocean
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Study of Pluto’s subsurface ocean drives potential return mission
Laurel KornfeldMarch 12th, 2022A $3 billion return mission to Pluto with an orbiter is being proposed to further study the subsurface oceans of both Pluto and its large moon Charon.
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Remnants of ancient subsurface ocean observed on Ceres
Laurel KornfeldOctober 5th, 2020The bright spots in Ceres’s Occator Crater, which mystified scientists when first observed by the Dawn spacecraft in 2015, indicate the dwarf planet may harbor remnants of what was once a global subsurface ocean.
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Pluto may have deep, ancient underground ocean
Laurel KornfeldApril 14th, 2020Two new studies of data collected by the New Horizons spacecraft during its 2015 Pluto flyby suggest the dwarf planet has a deep subsurface ocean that may have been present all 4.5 billion years of Pluto’s existence.
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Saturn’s moon Enceladus has conditions that could support microbial life
Laurel KornfeldJuly 4th, 2018Complex organic molecules have been discovered in the plumes of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data transmitted back to Earth by the Cassini Saturn orbiter, which ended its service above the ringed world on Sept. 16, 2017.
