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 include a rocky core of silicate or metallic rocks. It is thought that they may be composed of ice II or other polymorph of water ice.[1] The prime example of this class of object is Europa.
Icy moons warmed by tides may be the most common type of object to have liquid water,[citation needed] and thus the type of object to possibly have water-based life.
Some icy moons exhibit cryovolcanism, as well as geysers. The best studied example is Saturn's Enceladus.
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Icymoons are a class of natural satellites with surfaces composed mostly of ice. An icymoon may harbor an ocean underneath the surface, and possibly...
The Jupiter IcyMoons Explorer (Juice, formerly JUICE) is an interplanetary spacecraft on its way to orbit and study three icymoons of Jupiter: Ganymede...
The Jupiter IcyMoons Orbiter (JIMO) was a proposed NASA spacecraft designed to explore the icymoons of Jupiter. The main target was Europa, where an...
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...
subsurface liquid oceans on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto, there has been great interest in studying the icymoons in detail. Funding difficulties...
provide an overview of various aspects of the tectonics on icymoons. Igneous activity on icymoons can be defined as the melting, ascension, and solidification...
common on planetary objects in the outer Solar System, especially on the icymoons of the giant planets and potentially amongst the dwarf planets as well...
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...
the risk of collision with Jupiter's moons. There is great interest in missions to study Jupiter's larger icymoons, which may have subsurface liquid oceans...
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 IcyMoon, Rhea...
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...
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...
E, Krupp N, et al. (7 March 2008). "The Dust Halo of Saturn's Largest IcyMoon, Rhea". Science. 319 (5868): 1380–1384. Bibcode:2008Sci...319.1380J. doi:10...
was known to be orbited by the moons Ohma-D'un (home to a Gungan colony), Rori (home to a Naboo colony), and the icymoon Tasia (named for Queen Elsinoré...
retrograde orbit was one of the proposed orbits around Europa for the Jupiter IcyMoons Orbiter—principally for its projected stability and low-energy transfer...
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"...
initially conceived with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter IcyMoons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa...
away from equilibrium due to impacts. Based on a comparison with the icymoons that have been visited by spacecraft, such as Mimas (round at 400 km in...
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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