Tag Archive for 'Enceladus'

This artist's impression shows Jupiter and its moon Europa using actual Jupiter and Europa images in visible light. The Hubble ultraviolet images showing the faint emission from the newly discovered water vapor plumes have been superimposed, respecting the size but not the brightness of the plumes. Image credit: NASA / ESA / M. Kornmesser / L. Roth, Southwest Research Institute and University of Cologne / J. Saur, University of Cologne / K. Retherford, Southwest Research Institute / D. Strobel and P. Feldman, Johns Hopkins University / M. McGrath, Marshall Space Flight Center / F. Nimmo, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Europa: Huge Water Vapor Plumes Seen Erupting from Jupiter’s Moon

Dec 13, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered strong evidence of giant water-vapor geysers shooting off...

Planococcus halocryophilus OR1 (Nadia C S Mykytczuk et al, 2012)

Bacterium Planococcus halocryophilus Offers Clues about Microbial Life on Enceladus, Mars

May 27, 2013 by News Staff

A novel aerobic, gram-positive bacterium that is able to thrive at minus 15 degrees Celsius – the coldest temperature ever reported for bacterial...

Cassini Spacecraft Puts Enceladus in New Light

Apr 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers at the European Space Agency have released a new view of the Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus. This color view of Enceladus was taken by Cassini...

Cassini Returns New Images of Enceladus, Janus and Dione

Mar 30, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned new images of Saturn’s moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione. The Cassini spacecraft took this raw image...

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