SwRI and JPL study reveals liquid brine flows on airless worlds

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2024

A collaborative effort between Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) seeks to explain mysterious surface features observed on airless celestial bodies, such as the asteroids Vesta and Ceres, and Jupiter's moon Europa. These bodies, recently explored by NASA's Dawn mission and soon by the Europa Clipper mission, exhibit flow patterns that may result from l