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    • EXPERIMENT
      • Floating Ms
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  • LEARN
    • Ocean Zones
    • Deep-Sea Exploration
    • Vents and Seeps
    • ROVs and HOVs
    • Ocean Worlds
    • Tale of Four Challengers
    • Volcanoes in Space
    • Microscopy Guide
    • Female Explorers
    • Lichenology
    • Moss Ecosystem
    • Bedtime STEM Books
  • CREATE
    • Papier-Mâche Volcanoes
    • 3D Seafloor Bathymetry
    • Seafloor Cake
    • DIY Hydrothermal Vents
    • DIY Cave Snottites
    • Play-Dough Space Rocks
    • Papier-Maché Planets
    • Cosmic Cupcakes
    • Homemade Play-Dough
    • DIY Lab Coat
    • Callisto Cake
    • DIY Dream Box
  • EXPERIMENT
    • Floating Ms
    • Craters of the Moon
    • Grow Your Own Mycelium
    • DIY Solar Oven
    • Glow-in-the-Dark Slime
    • Winogradsky Columns
    • Strawberry DNA Extraction
    • Mushroom Hunt
    • Seed Collecting
    • Beach Clean Up

Ocean Worlds

Callisto

Enceladus

Enceladus

Callisto

Jupiter's moon Callisto has an ocean beneath an ice layer that is 200 km deep.

Enceladus

Enceladus

Enceladus

Enceladus

Enceladus is a tiny moon of Saturn that spews seawater out of jets at the south pole. It is believed to have hydrothermal vents in its ocean.

Europa

Enceladus

Ganymede

Europa

Europa is a Jovian moon that has a liquid water ocean and may have hydrothermal vents. The Europa Clipper mission will be the first to visit an ocean world in the outer Solar System.

Ganymede

Ganymede

Ganymede

Ganymede

Ganymede is the largest moon in the Solar System. It is a moon of Jupiter. It likely has a water ocean and layers of ice.

Titan

Ganymede

Titan

Titan

Titan is a moon of Saturn with a complex salty ocean filled with hydrocarbons and ices. It has a thick hazy atmosphere.

Pluto

Ganymede

Titan

Pluto

Pluto is an ocean world with mountains of ice and evidence of a subsurface ocean.

Mimas

Triton

Triton

Mimas

Mimas is a moon of Saturn. It is mostly water ice and has a very large impact crater; thus, it's nickname is the "Death Star" moon.

Triton

Triton

Triton

Triton

Neptune's moon Triton orbits in the opposite direction of the planet's rotation. It has a thin atmosphere and may be a captured Kuiper Belt object.

Earth

Triton

Earth

Earth is the OG Ocean World. More than 70% of the surface of our planet is covered with water.

Earth is the OG Ocean World. More than 70% of the surface of our planet is covered in liquid water, a known requirement for life.

Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life

NASA Goddard

Europa Clipper

NASA JPL

Image & Video Credits

All images - NASA

Ocean Worlds: The Search for Life - NASA Goddard

Europa Clipper: Exploring Jupiter's Ocean World - NASA JPL

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