{"664537":{"#nid":"664537","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Wild mission concepts would melt into icy moons, surf on sunlight to the ice giants, and more","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the 2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in December, planetary scientists gathered to discuss their visions for the future of solar system exploration \u0026mdash; visions that include drilling into the surface of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.space.com\/55-earths-moon-formation-composition-and-orbit.html\u0022\u003Emoon\u003C\/a\u003E, peering into the atmosphere of\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.space.com\/47-mars-the-red-planet-fourth-planet-from-the-sun.html\u0022\u003EMars\u003C\/a\u003E, sniffing out what\u0026#39;s in water spurting out of Saturn\u0026#39;s icy moon Enceladus, and more. One of those projects is\u0026nbsp;the Ice Shell Impact Penetrator (IceShIP), a\u0026nbsp;probe that would hit the icy ocean\u0026nbsp;surface of Jupiter\u0026#39;s moon Europa\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;faster than a bullet\u0026quot; according to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=azQXfYcAAAAJ\u0026amp;hl=en\u0022\u003EChinmayee Govinda Raj\u003C\/a\u003E, a doctoral\u0026nbsp;candidate in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry.\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;The impact would melt some of the ice, and the probe would also carry heaters to help melting along. Then, the spacecraft would sip up that extraterrestrial liquid, sending it to internal instruments that could analyze it for signs of life. Raj and a team of scientists conducted a 2022\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/articles\/10.3389\/fspas.2022.943594\/full\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E of IceShIP\u0026#39;s post-impact components.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-01-09 19:08:55","changed_gmt":"2023-01-09 19:08:55","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.space.com\/planetary-science-future-mission-concepts-agu-2022","dateline":{"date":"2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-01-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166928","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"191850","name":"Chinmayee Govinda Raj"},{"id":"191851","name":"Ice Shell Impact Penetrator"},{"id":"191852","name":"IceShIP"},{"id":"81281","name":"Europa"},{"id":"722","name":"Astrobiology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}