Europa, and Ganymede. Cochrane emphasized that more data is the key to confirming the ocean’s depth and thickness, stating, “For every flyby that occurs, only a very small snapshot in time of ...

If life exists deep within Europa, sunlight would be hard to come by. The moon’s icy shell is thought to be over six miles thick, with an ocean lying beneath that stretches over 60 miles into ...

Europa's frozen, fissured surface, seen here in a colorized mosaic image from the Galileo spacecraft, hides a liquid ocean that may hold all the ingredients needed for life. Three key ingredients ...

Once we reach Jupiter and Europa, then we have a 4-year prime science mission, where we do an in-depth study of Europa ... Europa's icy shell is a global ocean of water. "We know that there's ...

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"It's like a game of billiards around the solar system, flying by a couple of planets at just the right angle and timing to build up the energy we need to get to Jupiter and Europa." Today (March ...

Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?