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.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:39PM (1 child)
If we exterminate life from those worlds, how do we know there isn't more of it lurking in the solar system?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:17PM
You can follow the answer to that question live on The Expanse [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday April 11 2017, @10:01PM (1 child)
Unambiguous time specification:
UTC 2017-04-13 18:00
Live stream, here:
youtube.com/nasajpl/live [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @10:47PM
I doubt NASA is honest, and believe they intentionally misreport space.
My hypothesis is that they cannot really go to space, and same applies for the other space agencies. That's why they keep talking with big words about space, to keep alive the impression that they are experts in something impossible to verify, until recently.
They promote "we humans evolved and we started exploring space 70 years ago" but does the place you live in look like a space-age place? 70 years, really?
Indicators of NASA trying to discharge their bill include the "bubbles in space" incident, forcing them in retreat. NASA sells this as "private initiative will take over" giving the stage to "people on Mars" and "drones mining asteroids", even though the actual real-life machinery and labs do not look as convincing as the accompanying artistic impressions of machinery and labs. This is the only constant element for the 70 years of humanity's golden space age.
"Going to space" is a gold rush that involves acquiring a huge strategic potential and unlimited resources, and swarms of space plumbers, engineers, colonists, navigators, craftsmen, healers and more in the most epic mobilization humanly performed.
Human pioneering is an unstoppable urge. If it was possible for a space rush to ever happen, it would have, because humans have been ripe for this for 70 years now. Instead, humans only get a handful of bad pictures. NASA never went to space, and now with the internet it is becoming impossible for them to back their claim that they "go to space" and this is becoming more and more obvious.