{"id":3880,"date":"2015-04-08T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:26:32","slug":"searching-for-water-in-the-solar-system-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/searching-for-water-in-the-solar-system-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Water in the Solar System and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3881\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg\" alt=\"15-033i1\" width=\"946\" height=\"710\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg 946w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As NASA missions\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/jpl\/the-solar-system-and-beyond-is-awash-in-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">explore our solar system and search for new worlds<\/span><\/a>, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perhaps the most surprising water worlds are the five icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn that show strong evidence of oceans beneath their surfaces: Ganymede, Europa and Callisto at Jupiter, and Enceladus and Titan at Saturn. Scientists using NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope recently provided\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #273da2 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press\/2015\/march\/nasa-s-hubble-observations-suggest-underground-ocean-on-jupiters-largest-moon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">powerful evidence that Ganymede has a saltwater, sub-surface ocean<\/span><\/a>, likely sandwiched between two layers of ice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this artist\u2019s concept, the moon Ganymede orbits the giant planet Jupiter. The Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae on the moon generated by Ganymede\u2019s magnetic fields. A saline ocean under the moon\u2019s icy crust best explains shifting in the auroral belts measured by Hubble.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description As NASA missions\u00a0explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of our search for habitable planets and life beyond Earth, yet it links many seemingly unrelated worlds in surprising ways. Perhaps the most surprising water worlds are the five icy moons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",946,710,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",750,563,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",750,563,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",946,710,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",946,710,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",946,710,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",759,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",600,450,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",600,450,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",653,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",480,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",87,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",640,480,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",96,72,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/15-033i1.jpg",150,113,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}