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Our Moon: Inhabited, Small and Icy
2018Our 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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Cosmic ion bombardment of the icy moons of Jupiter
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 2011Abstract A large number of experiments have been performed in many laboratories in the world with the aim to investigate the physico-chemical effects induced by fast ions irradiating astrophysical relevant materials. The laboratory in Catania (Italy) has given a contribution to some experimental works.
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Microwaving the Moon: Water Extraction from Icy Regolith
2021Highly Commended Poster in the Judge's Choice category in the Postgraduate Research Poster Competition held by the Graduate School of The Open University on 23rd June 2021.
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The Icy Crust of the Jupiter Moon, Europa
2001Solar system exploration shows a wide variety of satellites with icy surfaces. Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is a rocky object about the size of Earth’s moon, but covered with an outer shell of water composition 150 km thick. Although the surface is frozen, it is not known if liquid water exists beneath the icy crust.
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Icy moon explorer gets glacial test
New Scientist, 2014While 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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Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My!
2020This chapter examines astrobiological phenomena in order to press beyond popular preconceptions about the field of astrobiology: that it is solely or primarily concerned with studying aliens that we do not yet know exist. Specifically considering Kepler 452-b, Proxima-b, Enceladus, and Mars, the chapter considers implications that emerge from closely ...
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Creep and Flow on the Icy Moons of the Outer Planets
Science, 2006On Earth, the flow of ice depends on its grain size. Higher pressure forms of ice such as those within the icy moons of the outer planets behave similarly, significantly affecting models of their internal dynamics.
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ENCELADUS: SATURN’S REGENERATING ICY MOON
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2018Emily S. Martin +2 more
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