{"id":3819,"date":"2017-04-11T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2017-04-11T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T20:08:47","slug":"nasa-reveal-new-discoveries-oceans-beyond-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/04\/11\/nasa-reveal-new-discoveries-oceans-beyond-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA to reveal new discoveries on oceans beyond Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is set to reveal this week at a news conference new results about ocean worlds in our solar system.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe announcements will be related particularly to findings from the agency\u2019s Saturn probe Cassini spacecraft and the Hubble space telescope, NASA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>These new discoveries will also help inform future ocean world exploration\u2014including NASA\u2019s upcoming Europa Clipper mission planned for launch in the 2020s\u2014and the broader search for life beyond the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The event, to be held at the James Webb Auditorium at NASA Headquarters in Washington on Thursday at 2 p.m. EDT (11.30 p.m. India time), will include remote participation from experts across the US.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Cassini spacecraft, which was launched in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004, is set to end its 20-year journey on September 15 this year with a planned plunge.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s planned Europa Clipper would place a spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter in order to perform a detailed investigation of the giant planet\u2019s moon Europa\u2014a world that shows strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy crust and which could host conditions favourable for life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/p>\n<p>Picture used for illustrative purposes alone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is set to reveal this week at a news conference new results about ocean worlds in our solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}