Target: Europa Mission: Hubble Space Telescope Instrument: Hubble Space Telescope Image Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI |
Target: Europa Mission: Galileo Instrument: Solid-State Imaging Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Orion Moon |
Researchers believe that there are oceans of liquid water beneath the surface of some of the moons of Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, and that extraterrestrial life forms may exist in them. For the past two years, scientists have been urging NASA and other space agencies to send a research mission to the moons of Uranus. It is already known that some moons of Jupiter and Saturn contain oceans of liquid water where extraterrestrial life could exist. The authors of a new article published in the journal Astrobiology argue that some of Uranus’s moons may also harbor oceans…
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Target: Io Mission: Juno Instrument: JIRAM Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/ASI/INAF/JIRAM/MSSS |
Target: Io Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS |
Target: Amalthea Mission: Juno Instrument: JunoCam Image Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS |