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NASA confirms water vapour from Europa (science news).
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing…
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November 2019
May 2018
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Life on Europa? Chances tick up with new evidence in Europa’s plumes.
Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has the ingredients to…
September 2016
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Water plumes ahoy, erupting from Jupiter’s moon, Europa.
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. This…
June 2015
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NASA’s Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa . . . go for green!
Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for signs of present-day…
May 2015
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Europa’s sea-life? Just became likely with NASA’s salt ocean findings.
NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean,…