icy moons

Ice-penetrating radar will help JUICE and other spacecraft find water beyond Earth

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Dr. Sarah Adams

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) left Earth a year ago, embarking on a mission to explore Jupiter’s potential ocean moons — ...

The Europa Clipper may only need 1 ice grain to detect life on Jupiter’s ocean moon

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Dr. Sarah Adams

A single grain of ice ejected from Jupiter‘s ocean moon Europa, if captured by NASA’s forthcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft, could be enough ...

NASA’S Europa Clipper gets science gear to probe ocean moon of Jupiter

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

In October, NASA’s scheduled to launch a spacecraft to one of Jupiter’s 92 known moons, an icy marble named Europa. The probe’s ...

NASA outlines plan to deploy burrowing ‘cryobots’ on icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter

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Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA is building a roadmap for robots that could visit ocean worlds through future space missions and crack the worlds’ thick, icy ...