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Tidal dissipation is usually most prominent in shallow oceans, while the ocean on Enceladus (a moon of Saturn) is believed to be tens of kilometers thick.
JPL Developing More Tools to Help Search for Life in Deep Space (NASA JPL)Oct. 7, 2022
A group photo of participants at the all-virtual AbGradCon 2021.
Lessons in Digital Meetings: AbGradCon 2021Oct. 5, 2022
A new NASA and Durham University simulation puts forth a different theory of the Moon’s origin – the Moon may have formed in a matter of hours, when material from the Earth and a Mars sized-body were launched directly into orbit after the impact.
Collision May Have Formed the Moon in Mere Hours, Simulations Reveal (NASA Ames)Oct. 4, 2022
An artistic illustration representing the exploration of ocean worlds.
Oceans Across the Solar SystemOct. 3, 2022
The complex, ice-covered surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft during a flyby on Sept. 29, 2022. At closest approach, the spacecraft came within a distance of about 219 miles (352 kilometers).
NASA’s Juno Shares First Image From Flyby of Jupiter’s Moon EuropaOct. 3, 2022
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Reminder: The NASA Astrobiology Program Student Early Career Collaboration AwardsSept. 28, 2022
Still from a video explaining the rotational period comparison between Earth and Jupiter.
How Planetary Orbits, in Our Solar System and Beyond, Can Affect HabitabilitySept. 25, 2022
Artist illustration of NASA's Kepler Mission. Kepler was a space observatory designed to survey a specific portion of our region of the Milky Way galaxy. An important part of Kepler’s work was the identification of Earth-size planets around distant stars.
The Virtual Planetary Lab and Its Search for What Makes an Exoplanet Habitable, or Even InhabitedSept. 23, 2022
This image of Jupiter’s moon Europa was taken by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, from a distance of about 51,000 miles (82,000 kilometers).
NASA’s Juno Will Perform Close Flyby of Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa (NASA JPL)Sept. 22, 2022
The first view of the sediments at the bottom of Lake Whillans.
Life in the Extreme: Surviving Beneath a Glacier, Part IISept. 22, 2022
These craters were formed by a Sept. 5, 2021, meteoroid impact on Mars, the first to be detected by NASA’s InSight. Taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, this enhanced-color image highlights the dust and soil disturbed by the impact in blue.
NASA’s InSight ‘Hears’ Its First Meteoroid Impacts on Mars (NASA JPL)Sept. 19, 2022
NASA’s Perseverance rover puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called “Skinner Ridge” in Mars’ Jezero Crater.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Investigates Geologically Rich Mars Terrain (NASA)Sept. 16, 2022
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