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Life beneath an icy moon

New Scientist, 2020
The frigid satellite worlds of our outer solar system may harbour extraterrestrial life.
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The icy moons

2014
For Principal Investigator Michele Dougherty of the Magnetometer (MAG) team, the Cassini mission highlight occurred in February 2005. This was when she and her colleagues determined that Saturn’s magnetic field lines were unexpectedly bending as they went by the satellite Enceladus. This was possibly a sign that the tiny moon, even with its low gravity,
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Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME)

2019 IEEE 5th International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace), 2019
This paper presents the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission focusing on the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME), which is one of the instruments included in the JUICE payload. RIME is a radar sounder aimed to study the subsurface of Jupiter’s icy moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.
Lorenzo Bruzzone, Renato Croci
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RIME: Radar for Icy Moon Exploration

2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS, 2013
This paper presents the Radar for Icy Moons Exploration (RIME) instrument, which has been selected as payload for the JUpiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission. JUICE is the first Large-class mission chosen as part of the ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 programme, and is aimed to study Jupiter and to investigate the potentially habitable zones in the ...
Bruzzone, Lorenzo, J. J. Plaut, G. Alberti, D. D. Blankenship, Bovolo, Francesca, B. A. Campbell, Ferro, Adamo, Y. Gim, W. Kofman, G. Komatsu, W. McKinnon, G. Mitri, R. Orosei, G. W. Patterson, D. Plettemeier, R. Seu   +15 more
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Jupiter ICY moon explorer (JUICE): Advances in the design of the radar for Icy Moons (RIME)

2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015
This paper presents the Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) that is a fundamental payload in the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). RIME is a radar sounder aimed to study the subsurface of Jupiter's icy moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto.
Bruzzone, Lorenzo, Plaut, J. J., Alberti, G., Blankenship, D. D., Bovolo, Francesca, Campbell, B. A., Castelletti, Davide, Gim, Y., Ilisei, Ana - Maria, Kofman, W., Komatsu, G., Mckinnon, W., Mitri, G., Moussessian, A., Notarnicola, C., Orosei, R., Patterson, G. W., Pettinelli, E., Plettemeier, D.   +18 more
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The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest Icy Moon, Rhea

Science, 2008
Saturn's moon Rhea had been considered massive enough to retain a thin, externally generated atmosphere capable of locally affecting Saturn's magnetosphere. The Cassini spacecraft's in situ observations reveal that energetic electrons are depleted in the moon's vicinity.
Jones, G. H., Roussos, E., Krupp, N., Beckmann, U., Coates, A. J., Crary, F., Dandouras, I., Dikarev, Valery, Dougherty, M. K., Garnier, P., Hansen, C. J., Hendrix, A. R., Hospodarsky, G. B., Johnson, R. E., Kempf, S., Khurana, K. K., Krimigis, S. M., Krueger, H., Kurth, W. S., Lagg, A., McAndrews, H. J., Mitchell, D. G., Paranicas, C., Postberg, F., Russell, C. T., Saur, J., Seiss, M., Spahn, F., Srama, R., Strobel, D. F., Tokar, R., Wahlund, J. -E., Wilson, R. J., Woch, J., Young, D.   +34 more
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The Icy Moons of Jupiter

2006
The Galilean satellites formed in a nebula of dust and gas that surrounded Jupiter toward the end of the formation of the giant planet itself. Their diverse initial compositions were determined by conditions in the circum-jovian nebula, just as the planets’ initial properties were governed by their formation within the circum-solar nebula. The Galilean
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Spectroscopy of Icy Moon Surface Materials

Space Science Reviews, 2010
Remote sensing of icy objects in the outer solar system relies upon availability of appropriate laboratory measurements. Surface deposits of specific substances often provide our most direct route to understanding interior composition, thereby informing theories of endogenic surface modification, exogenic surface processing and processes involving ...
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Icy moon explorer gets glacial test

New Scientist, 2014
While Mars has long been the darling of NASA's robotic exploration efforts, in December astronomers revealed the first evidence that Europa is venting plumes of vapor into space--probably fed by the seemingly life-friendly ocean humans think is present under the ice.
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Our Moon: Inhabited, Small and Icy

2018
Our Moon is unique in that no other planet has a moon as large as ours, relatively speaking. The mass of the Moon is 1.23% of the mass of Earth. The next relatively largest moons are Titan, only 0.024% of Saturn’s mass, and Triton, at 0.022% of the mass of Neptune. Among these contestants, our Moon stands out as relatively enormous compared with Earth,
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