This supports the theory that the moon was once covered in an ocean of magma While the moon might now seem like a cold, dusty, desert, new evidence from India 's Chandrayaan-3 mission has revealed ...

Data from India's recent Chandrayaan-3 mission supports the idea that an ocean of molten rock once covered the moon. Skip to main content. ... is uniform in its chemical composition over an area ...

Saturn’s moon Mimas, floating above the planet’s rings, might conceal a liquid ocean beneath its surface. CREDIT: NASA/JPL/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE ...

This supports the 'Lunar Magma Ocean' (LMO) theory which claims the whole of the moon's surface was formed from a cooling layer of magma that formed 4.5 billion years ago.

New data from India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission suggests that the Moon may have once had an ocean of lava on its surface sometime in the past. The data is covered extensively in a new paper ...

Saturn's 'Death Star' moon has a hidden ocean under its surface, scientists say. French researchers cited observations made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

Saturn’s tiny moon Mimas seems to have an ocean, too The ocean must have formed relatively recently, but we don't know how. John Timmer – Feb 7, 2024 11:47 am | 59 ...

A photograph of the surface of the Jovian moon Europa. The image was taken by the Juno probe during its flyby on September 29, 2022, then processed and colorized by a citizen scientist.

EARLIER in the week, a liquid-hydrogen fuel tank had sprung a leak and threatened to delay the launch. Now, less than an hour before the late-morning blastoff, dark clouds rolled ominously across ...

An ice shell over an ocean can move more freely than an ice shell on top of rock, so the changes tend to be larger. That’s how the ocean was detected at Enceladus. And it’s one of the best ...

This ocean would have filled over half of the moon's entire body, at about 60 miles deep below a 20-mile-thick icy crust. "That result was a big surprise to the team," co-author Caleb Strom, ...