On the identification of hyperhydrated sodium chloride hydrates, stable at icy moon conditions. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance The finding of sodium chloride hydrate phases allows an update to the phase diagram of the canonical H2O–NaCl binary system in over 150 y.
Journaux B +14 more
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New Signatures of Bio-Molecular Complexity in the Hypervelocity Impact Ejecta of Icy Moon Analogues [PDF]
Life, 2022 Impact delivery of prebiotic compounds to the early Earth from an impacting comet is considered to be one of the possible ways by which prebiotic molecules arrived on the Earth.
Surendra V. Singh +11 more
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Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea: a Prediction for Bulk Chemical Composition and Physical Structure at the Time of the Cassini Spacecraft First Flyby [PDF]
Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, 2005 I report a model for the formation of Saturn's family of mid-sized icy moons to coincide with the first flypast of Rhea by the Cassini Orbiter spacecraft on 26 November 2005.
Andrew J. R. Prentice +18 more
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Growth, physiology, and metabolism of Halomonas meridiana in aqueous ammonium sulfate with implications for icy moon astrobiology [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyThe discovery of extraterrestrial reservoirs of liquid water has motivated missions to icy moons Europa and Titan. Tentative evidence of ammonium sulfate ((NH4)2SO4) has been detected on the surface of Europa, and (NH4)2SO4 could be a prominent ...
Cassie M. Hopton +2 more
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Icy Moon Penetrator Organic Analyzer Post-Impact Component Analysis
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Europa is an established high-priority astrobiology target where identifying chemical signatures of life is one of NASA’s highest-priority goals. Remote sensing techniques are powerful tools for extraterrestrial exploration, but in situ data through ...
Chinmayee Govinda Raj +8 more
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Nonsynchronous rotation of icy moon ice shells: The thermal wind perspective. [PDF]
Sci AdvThe ice shells of icy satellites have been hypothesized to undergo nonsynchronous rotation (NSR) under the influence of tidal torques and/or ocean currents.
Kang W.
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Geophysical Research Letters, 2023 Several bodies in the outer solar system are believed to host liquid water oceans underneath their icy surfaces. Knowledge of the hydrosphere properties is essential for understanding and assessing their habitability.
Flavio Petricca +5 more
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A Passive Probe for Subsurface Oceans and Liquid Water in Jupiter's Icy Moons [PDF]
, 2014 We describe an interferometric reflectometer method for passive detection of subsurface oceans and liquid water in Jovian icy moons using Jupiter's decametric radio emission (DAM).
Heggy, Essam +5 more
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Understanding tidal dissipation in gaseous giant planets from their core to their surface [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2015 Tidal dissipation in planetary interiors is one of the key physical mechanisms that drive the evolution of star-planet and planet-moon systems. Tidal dissipation in planets is intrinsically related to their internal structure.
Guenel M., Mathis S., Remus F.
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DNA Polymerization in Icy Moon Abyssal Pressure Conditions
Astrobiology, 2023 Evidence of stable liquid water oceans beneath the ice crust of moons within the Solar System is of great interest for astrobiology. In particular, subglacial oceans may present hydrothermal processes in their abysses, similarly to terrestrial ...
Lorenzo Carré +5 more
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