NASA has confirmed “statistically significant evidence” from the Hubble Space Telescope indicating the presence of salty watery ejecta plumes from the Jovian moon Europa. The announcement lends further proof for the existence of a deep, saline ocean under Europa’s icy surface and creates new urgency and objectives for NASA’s upcoming Europa Clipper mission in the mid-2020s.
Friday, September 30, 2016
Europa Almost Assuredly has Watery Plumes
Labels:
astrobiology,
Europa,
europa clipper,
Galilean moons,
icy moons,
jovian system
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