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Dawn Makes an Elemental Discovery on Vesta
Hydrogen “hot spots” are shown in this color-coded image of Vesta, a single frame from an animation. Red indicates the greatest abundance. In what could be called a “eureka” moment for Dawn researchers...
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Curiosity’s Roving Along an Ancient Riverbed!
Geological evidence for water flowing within Gale Crater has been spotted by MSL (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ) Not even two months after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has already found good...
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Dione to Join the List of Moons with Underground Oceans?
A slushy, icy ocean may be hiding beneath Dione’s cratered crust Earth may display its seas on its surface for all the Universe to see, but further out in the Solar System liquid oceans are kept...
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Curiosity Gets the Big Scoop on Martian Water
Trenches dug by Curiosity in a region called “Rocknest” in October 2012 (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Making a big splash (pun intended) in the space news world today is the report that NASA’s Mars Science...
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Jupiter’s Moon Europa Has Jets Like Enceladus!
Rendering of Europa’s vapor plumes, seen by Hubble UV observations (NASA, ESA, and M. Kornmesser) “Attempt no landings there?” Ok, FINE. We’ll just fly a spacecraft through Europa’s newly-discovered...
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A Ceres of Surprises: the Largest Asteroid is a Water World
Artist’s interpretation of Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) By now you must know about the jets of ice particles blasting out of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and...
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Water Water Everywhere
Earth isn’t the only planet with water – we just need to know where to look. Everyone knows that Earth is a “water-world,” with oceans covering 71% of its surface and at least as much contained within...
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Curious Stains on Mars’ Summer Slopes Continue to be Seen
Recurring slope lineae (RSL) stain mountain slopes in Hale Crater. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) As the midsummer Sun beats down on the southern mountains of Mars, bringing daytime temperatures...
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Icy Tendrils in Saturn’s E Ring Traced Back to Enceladus
Cassini images of Enceladus in the E ring (top left, upper center) and computer-generated models of the same scenes. Views from 2006 and 2013, respectively. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute)...
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NASA Sciences the Sh*t Out of Mars, Finds Water
False-color image of a mountain on Mars with hundred-yard-long streaks running down its slopes. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona) So on the same week that the highly-anticipated film “The Martian”...
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There’s More Water Ice on Pluto Than First Thought
Initial scans of Pluto’s pure water ice (color data, left) and new interpretations taking into account other elements and compounds (right). Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI When New Horizons made its close...
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Enceladus’ Jets: the Farther They Are, the Harder They Spray
Plumes of icy vapor erupt from cracks in Enceladus’ south pole. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI) A crowning achievement of the Cassini mission to Saturn is the discovery of water vapor jets spraying out from...
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Venus’ Water Has Been Electrified Away
Venus Express has detected a surprisingly strong electric field at Venus – the first time this has been measured at any planet. (ESA–C. Carreau) Using data gathered by ESA’s Venus Express researchers...
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What Warmed Mars? The Curious Case of the Missing Carbonate
Curiosity’s investigation of Mars’ surface in Gale Crater indicate that liquid water was once present (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) Everything we’ve observed so far about the surface of Mars points to an...
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After 15 Years NASA and DLR Prepare to Say Goodbye to GRACE
Illustration of the twin GRACE satellites in orbit (NASA) On March 17, 2002, a pair of satellites nicknamed “Tom” and “Jerry” launched aboard a Russian Rockot vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in...
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High-Resolution Maps Indicate a Past Watery Environment in Mars’“Grand Canyon”
HiRISE image of Candor Chasma, a region of Values Marineris recently mapped by the USGS and found to exhibit signs of past water. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona ) If you’ve ever visited the Grand...
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Our Moon Could Be Conveniently Full of Water
“Hot spots” on this map of the Moon indicate volcanic flows with increased water content, presumably originating from the interior. (Credit: Milliken Lab/Brown University) It’s been known for a while...
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