Icy moons are a class of natural satellites with surfaces composed mostly of ice. An icy moon may harbor an ocean underneath the surface, and possibly...
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icy moons of Jupiter: Ganymede...
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several proposed exploration missions. The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) is a mission to Ganymede launched on 14 April 2023, that...
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European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which was launched in 2023. After flybys of all three icy Galilean moons, it is planned to enter orbit...
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The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icy moons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...
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caused by tidal heating. Many of the larger icy moons could have subsurface oceans. The seven largest moons are more massive than the dwarf planet Pluto...
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trailing hemisphere, which faces backwards relative to the moon's motion. Rhea is an icy body with a density of about 1.236 g/cm3. This low density indicates...
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provide an overview of various aspects of the tectonics on icy moons. Igneous activity on icy moons can be defined as the melting, ascension, and solidification...
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Schenk et al. "Saturn's Other Icy Moons: Geologically Complex Worlds." In Schek et al. (2018) Enceladus and the Icy Moons of Saturn, p. 248 Pseudo-MPEC...
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the fourth-largest moon of Saturn. With a mean diameter of 1,123 km and a density of about 1.48 g/cm3, Dione is composed of an icy mantle and crust overlying...
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are two forthcoming missions planned for the Jovian system. The Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) is a planned European Space Agency mission to the Jovian...
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subsurface liquid oceans on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, there has been great interest in studying the icy moons in detail. Funding difficulties...
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Titan-sized moon broke up, producing the rings and inner mid-sized moons, or that two large moons fused to form Titan, with the collision scattering icy debris...
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Enceladus (redirect from Enceladus (moon))
101 Geysers and More on Icy Saturn Moon". NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on July 14, 2017. Retrieved July 29, 2014. "Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn...
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Retrieved 25 October 2011. "Exploring Jupiter – JIMO – Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter – the moon Callisto". Space Today Online. Archived from the original on...
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Europa Clipper (category Europa (moon))
initially conceived with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa...
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Natural satellite (redirect from Moon satellite)
Pluto's Moons Tumbling in Absolute Chaos". NASA. Retrieved 25 October 2015. Jones, G. H.; et al. (2008). "The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest Icy Moon, Rhea...
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Cryovolcano (redirect from Icy volcanism)
common on planetary objects in the outer Solar System, especially on the icy moons of the giant planets and potentially amongst the dwarf planets as well...
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Ice planet (redirect from Icy planet)
definition of planet, the small icy worlds of the Solar System qualify as icy planets. These include most of the planetary-mass moons, such as Ganymede, Titan...
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Lander (spacecraft) (section Moon Impact Probe)
proposed as part of NASA's Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission that was canceled in 2006. ESA launched the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission in...
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Subsatellite (redirect from Moon moon)
E, Krupp N, et al. (7 March 2008). "The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest Icy Moon, Rhea". Science. 319 (5868): 1380–1384. Bibcode:2008Sci...319.1380J. doi:10...
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in geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. These jets of icy particles are emitted into orbit around Saturn from vents in the moon's south polar region. Over...
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CIRS Team (April 2007). "Constraining the surface properties of Saturn's icy moons, using Cassini/CIRS emissivity spectra". Icarus. 187 (2): 574–583. Bibcode:2007Icar...
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Naboo (section Moons of Naboo)
was known to be orbited by the moons Ohma-D'un (home to a Gungan colony), Rori (home to a Naboo colony), and the icy moon Tasia (named for Queen Elsinoré...
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the Moon". BBC News. Archived from the original on August 11, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2010. Martel, L. M. V. (June 4, 2003). "The Moon's Dark, Icy Poles"...
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retrograde orbit was one of the proposed orbits around Europa for the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter—principally for its projected stability and low-energy transfer...
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away from equilibrium due to impacts. Based on a comparison with the icy moons that have been visited by spacecraft, such as Mimas (round at 400 km in...
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formation. The moon consists of approximately equal amounts of ice and rock, and is probably differentiated into a rocky core and an icy mantle. A layer...
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performing a future landing on Jupiter's moon Europa to drill down and explore the possible liquid water ocean beneath its icy surface. The Lunar Polar Exploration...
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