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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Now Fully Assembled for 2021 Launch
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in News, NASA, Space, Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Cassini, Galileo, Astrobiology, Europa, Jupiter, Saturn, Solar System, Research, habitability, Enceladus, Europa MissionBack to Europa! NASA Confirms Next Phase of Mission to Ocean Moon
NASA’s next mission back to Jupiter’s moon Europa just took another big step towards reality. The next phase of Europa Clipper has been confirmed, giving the go-ahead for the mission to proceed to final design, construction and testing. More
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in News, NASA, Space, Science, Hubble Space Telescope, Galileo, Astrobiology, Europa, Solar System, Research, habitability, Enceladus, Europa MissionNew Evidence For Water Vapor Plumes on Europa Discovered In Old Galileo Mission Data
For decades, Jupiter’s moon Europa has fascinated scientists and the public alike after it was learned that a global water ocean lies beneath the icy crust. Could there be life on this small world? Now, new results from old data, presented today in a NASA live science chat, are hinting that the subsurface environment on […] More
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in NASA, Europa, Europa MissionBalancing Cost and Science: NASA Examines Less Expensive Mission Design for Europa Lander
The push for a return mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa has been gaining steam in the last few years, with NASA now planning for Europa Clipper, which would make repeated close flybys to study the moon’s interior ocean and the exciting potential for life. There has also been more talk about a possible lander to […] More
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A New Look at ‘Ocean Worlds’: James Webb Space Telescope Will Target Europa and Enceladus
NASA’s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will be used to study two of the most fascinating moons in our Solar System – Europa and Enceladus, also known as “ocean worlds” since both have global oceans of water beneath their outer icy surfaces. The new observations will help scientists learn more about conditions on these […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, Hubble Space Telescope, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Astrobiology, Europa, Jupiter, Solar System, Research, habitability, Europa MissionLanding on an Ocean Moon: NASA Unveils New Plan to Search for Life on Europa
For decades now, Europa has beckoned – this moon of Jupiter which is frozen on the outside but hides a global ocean on the inside – has so far only been visited by spacecraft during brief flybys. Scientists and the public alike have been wanting to return to this fascinating little world since it offers […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Hubble Space Telescope, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Exploration, Europa, Jupiter, Saturn, Solar System, Neptune, Research, Voyager, UranusVoyager Spacecraft Continue Their Interstellar Journey With Help from Hubble Space Telescope
There have been many incredible planetary missions over the past several decades, from as close as our Moon to the outer reaches of the Solar System. Right now, there are robotic explorers at Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Ceres, and out past Pluto. But there are two more which have travelled even farther, to the most distant […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, New Horizons, Exploration, Solar System, Research, Kuiper Belt, habitability, PlutoAncient Water World: Tectonics on Pluto’s Moon Charon Point to Frozen Subsurface Ocean
Charon is Pluto’s largest moon and, despite being so cold and remote from the Sun, has been revealed to be a fascinating and active world, just like Pluto itself. Residing in the far outskirts of the Solar System, it had been expected that Charon—and Pluto for that matter—would be little more than frozen, dead worlds. […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, New Horizons, Exploration, Astrobiology, Solar System, Research, Kuiper Belt, habitability, Pluto‘Cracked and Tipped Over’ Pluto Has a Subsurface Ocean: New Evidence From New Horizons
Pluto, a tiny frigid world in the distant outskirts of the Solar System, has been full of surprises, as first revealed by the New Horizons spacecraft back in July 2015. Expected to be mostly a cold, geologically dead place, it has instead been shown to be quite the opposite. Yes, it’s bitterly cold of course, […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Cassini, Exploration, Astrobiology, Europa, Jupiter, Solar System, Research, James Webb Telescope, habitability, Europa MissionGeysers on Europa? Hubble Space Telescope Finds More Evidence for Water Vapor Plumes
Intriguing new findings about Jupiter’s moon Europa were announced today by NASA, and while they don’t involve any direct evidence for life, they do provide more information on how scientists could better search for such evidence, without having to drill through the icy crust to the ocean below. The new observations, by the Hubble Space […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Galileo, Exploration, Astrobiology, Europa, Jupiter, Solar System, Research, Voyager, habitability, Enceladus, Europa MissionNASA’s Europa Mission Facing Possible Budget Cuts in 2017
For a long time now, there has been growing interest in sending a mission back to Jupiter to better study one moon in particular: Europa. Previous missions such as Voyager and Galileo showed us this world up close for the first time, revealing a place that maybe, just maybe, is home to some kind of […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, JPL, Hubble Space Telescope, Juno, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Exploration, Galileo, Exploration, Jupiter, Solar System, Research, VoyagerNASA’s Juno Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Jupiter, the ‘King of Planets’
Jupiter has often been referred to as the King of Planets, and for good reason, as it is a massive gas giant, much larger than Earth and the largest planet in our Solar System. It is more than 2.5 times as massive as all the other planets combined, and is a mesmerizing world of colorful bands […] More
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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Space, Science, Space Exploration, New Horizons, Exploration, Astrobiology, Europa, Solar System, Research, Kuiper Belt, habitability, Pluto, EnceladusDoes Pluto Have a Subsurface Ocean? New Research Says Probably
So-called “waterworlds” have been found to be surprisingly common in the Solar System—small icy moons which have ice crusts but oceans of liquid water below the surface. These include Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede and Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan, and possibly others. These moons are cold and very far from the Sun, but heated inside […] More
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