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Scientists Can Detect Life in Single Grain of Alien Ice
Icy moons like Europa and Enceladus are exciting venues for the prospect of life beyond Earth, because they are thought to contain oceans of water beneath their frigid surfaces. Now, a team of scientists has concluded that a single grain of material spewed up by the outgassing moons could contain biosignatures—signs of life—if there are…
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NASA Spacecraft Has a Close Encounter with Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in orbit around Jupiter since 2016, made a close flyby of the planet’s moon Ganymede at 3:35 a.m. AEST on Tuesday. Its goal: to take stock of the icy orb’s composition and magnetic field, among other measurements.
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Spacecraft May Have Flown Right Through A Plume Of Water On Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along – they just don’t think to ask the question. For example, it appears that in 1997, the Galileo orbiter flew through a jet of water shooting out from Jupiter’s moon Europa without even trying.