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April 13th NASA Briefing on Ocean(s) Near Saturn (or Elsewhere)

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:08PM   
from the water-water-maybe-somewhere dept.

takyon writes:

Stay tuned for a NASA press conference on Thursday:

NASA will discuss new results about ocean worlds in our solar system from the agency's Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope during a news briefing 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) on Thursday, April 13. The event, to be held at NASA Headquarters in Washington, will include remote participation from experts across the country.

The briefing will be broadcast live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

These new discoveries will help inform future ocean world exploration -- including NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission planned for launch in the 2020s -- and the broader search for life beyond Earth.

The results could be about Enceladus, but Titan, Rhea, and Dione are also suspected to have subsurface oceans.

Timeline of Cassini–Huygens. Many of the recent flybys targeted Titan.

Also at JPL.

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• How can we be sure? How can we be sure? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:39PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:39PM (#492394)

  If we exterminate life from those worlds, how do we know there isn't more of it lurking in the solar system?

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• Re:How can we be sure? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:17PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:17PM (#492433)

  You can follow the answer to that question live on The Expanse [wikipedia.org].

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