![]() ![]() Jupiter’s moon Europa is covered in an icy shell, but when NASA’s two Voyager spacecraft flew past in 1979, data from the mission gave scientists on Earth the first hint that Europa was hiding an ocean of liquid water beneath its surface. Ocean Worlds are a focus of research concerning the potential for past or present life in the Solar System, and are some of the main locations of interest for upcoming NASA missions. The Special Issue on “Oceans Across the Solar System,” (2022) Oceanography, Volume 35, Number 1, can be found at: Ocean science on Earth provides fundamental knowledge on how these bodies of water can become habitable for life as we know it, and whether or not environments for life could persist in the Solar System on worlds other than Earth. The special issue covers topics ranging from Earth’s oceans to the subsurface oceans on icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus. ![]() Oceanography is the official magazine of the Oceanographic Society. The journal Oceanography has published a “Special Issue on Oceans Across the Solar System,” which includes contributions from a number of NASA-supported astrobiologists and members of the NASA Research Coordination Network (RCN), Network for Ocean Worlds (NOW). ![]()
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