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Uranus's swaying moons could help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans

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When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time equipped to see if those icy moons are hiding liquid water oceans.

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Study Finds

Life near Uranus? Planet's wobbling moons helping NASA search for hidden oceans

"Discovering liquid water oceans inside the moons of Uranus would transform our thinking about the range of possibilities for where life could exist," researchers say. The post Life near Uranus? Planet’s wobbling moons helping NASA search for hidden oceans appeared first on Study Finds.

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Secret oceans could exist in our solar system; new UT model aims to find them

An infrared composite image of the two hemispheres of Uranus obtained with Keck Telescope adaptive optics. (NASA JPL) AUSTIN (KXAN) -- The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus. A new computer model, designed by researchers at the University of Texas, could help a future NASA mission locate liquid water on the icy world's moons. A new paper, published in Advancing Earth and Space Sciences, revealed how the model co…

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Science Daily

Uranus's swaying moons will help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans

A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing spacecraft. The research gives engineers and scientists a slide-rule to help them design NASA's upcoming Uranus Orbiter and Probe mission.

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Phys.org

Uranus's swaying moons could help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans

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Sci Tech Daily

Could Life Thrive Beneath Icy Moons? NASA’s Revolutionary Software Is Finding Out

Southwest Research Institute, supported by NASA’s Habitable Worlds program, is repurposing corrosion modeling software to explore the possibility of life on ice-covered moons like Europa and Enceladus. The software, enhanced for examining complex chemical and organic interactions under extreme conditions, could predict environments that support microbial life. Expanding Horizons in Space Exploration Southwest Research Institute [...]

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NASA to investigate subterranean ocean of Uranus' moon

Some of the icy moons in the Jupiter and Saturn systems appear to have oceans of liquid water inside them. Although our knowledge of Uranus' moons is more limited, future tours of the Uranian system may be able to detect subsurface oceans. To plan for this, we need to understand how the internal structure of [...] Source The post NASA to investigate subterranean ocean of Uranus’ moon appeared first on Mondo News.

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