If there was a contest for the most interesting moon in our solar system, Callisto would be a contender. Jupiter's ...
A theory involving a "mushy zone" of ice along the moon’s fissures could explain the enormous plumes erupting from its south ...
It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the moon, an astonishing fact driving a ...
New evidence from an old NASA mission supports the theory that Jupiter's moon Callisto is in fact an ocean world. Credit: NASA / JPL / DLR A moon of Jupiter about the size of Mercury likely has a ...
The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as ...
A Chinese study found that the Moon was wholly covered by a molten “magma ocean” in the early phases of its formation. A study by the China National Space Administration, published in the ...
But evidence for Callisto's subsurface ocean has remained inconclusive, as the moon has an intense ionosphere. Scientists thought this electrically conductive upper part of the moon's atmosphere ...
“What we’ve done is put forth a strong case for an ocean,” study coauthor David Stevenson ... higher than they would expect from an empty depression covered by the moon’s planet-wide ice sheet. “Then ...
FILE - A flock of birds fly in front of the full moon over the city centre in Tallinn, Estonia, Oct. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File) ...
researchers have theorized that resting beneath Callisto's pockmarked surface is a liquid saltwater ocean that spans the entire moon ... heat source from within) over a time span long enough ...