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Color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution.
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Newly Discovered Salts May Exist on Icy Moons

by Derek Smith 23 March 202323 March 2023

For the first time in more than a century, scientists have identified new sodium chloride crystals. The discovery may reconcile puzzling spectroscopic images of Europa’s surface.

Illustration of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft diving through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus in 2015
Posted inFeatures

Marine Science Goes to Space

by Damond Benningfield 4 January 20234 January 2023

Space and ocean scientists take a splash course in multidisciplinary science to chart our solar system’s ocean worlds.

Spacecraft view of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa showing a complex pattern of ridges and bands.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Europa’s Plate Tectonic Activity Is Unlike Earth’s

by Morgan Rehnberg 29 November 202227 January 2023

The moon of Jupiter has likely experienced intermittent, regional plate tectonic activity in the past, although the plates are currently dormant.

Half of Jupiter’s moon Europa seen from space
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Zipping Up Data to Zap It Back from an Icy Moon

by Sarah Derouin 19 October 202219 October 2022

NASA wants to send instruments to distant moons like Europa and Enceladus to search for life. But getting vital data back to Earth over limited bandwidth will take some impressive compression software.

NASA的卡西尼号宇宙飞船捕捉到了位于木星前面的木卫二。
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海洋世界的动力可能受旋转控制

by Morgan Rehnberg 27 July 202227 July 2022

新的模拟结果表明,在自然罗斯比数较小的冰卫星上的地下海洋可能主要受到旋转效应的影响。

Europa situated in front of Jupiter.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Dynamics of Ocean Worlds Likely Controlled by Their Rotation

by Morgan Rehnberg 9 May 202227 July 2022

New simulations suggest that subsurface oceans on icy moons with small natural Rossby numbers may be dominated by rotational effects.

This aerial image shows two researchers exploring a sunken spring in the middle of a gray and white icy landscape. One researcher, dressed in blue, crouches inside a circular hole in the ice while a second researcher, dressed in black, stands to the left taking a photo.
Posted inNews

Lipids from Europa’s Ocean Could Be Detectable on the Surface

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 March 202210 March 2022

A super salty spring in the Canadian Arctic provides insights key to detecting life on a distant ocean world.

A hemisphere of the moon Europa sits on a black background, with the curve of the horizon toward the top of the image. The moon’s surface is a light gray-brown and is crisscrossed with dark brown streaks and splotches.
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Europa’s Ocean Can Tug Its Ice Shell Around

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 13 January 202213 January 2022

Sometimes ocean dynamics are a drag.

Graphic showing what the JEDI instrument can see of Io and Europa from its trajectory
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Energetic Neutral Atom Emissions from Jupiter, Io, and Europa

by Viviane Pierrard 15 June 202027 January 2022

The first Jovian off-equator Energetic Neutral Atom viewings reveal distinct emissions from Jupiter and the orbits of Io and Europa: Energetic particle injections surprisingly occur inside Io’s orbit.

Illustration of Jupiter’s magnetosphere and innermost planets
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Two Moons and a Magnetosphere

by Sarah Stanley 21 April 202018 October 2022

Decades of research have illuminated how Io and Europa shape—and are shaped by—Jupiter’s giant magnetosphere.

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