It shows a close-up of Europa's chaotic landscape, which is evidence that something below the moon's thick icy crust — like an ocean — is stoking lots of change and deformity. Salty water may ...
This meant the ancient ocean of molten lava extended across the entire moon. The new map of Vikram ... shows an undulating landscape of highlands and low, flat plains around the lander.
China’s Chang’e 6 mission uncovers evidence of a molten lunar magma ocean and a violent ancient impact.
Observers across most of the United States will have front-row seats to the spectacular total lunar eclipse overnight on ...
From fiery 'blood moons' to ancient legends, discover the surprising science and history behind lunar eclipses.
But evidence for Callisto's subsurface ocean has remained inconclusive, as the moon has an intense ionosphere. Scientists thought this electrically conductive upper part of the moon's atmosphere ...
The surrounding landscape has taken on a ... At this moment, the moon is shining directly overhead from a point in the Pacific Ocean, 1,565 miles (2,520 km) northwest of the Galapagos Islands.