Tag: europa
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Hubble Detects Water Vapor Over Europa’s South Pole
from scitechdaily.com: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed water vapor above the frigid south polar region of Jupiter’s moon Europa, providing the first strong evidence of water plumes erupting off […]
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Europa Ocean Favorable To Life
Michael E Brown, Caltech astronomer and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) “… have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath […]
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Ocean Of Europa Deepest In Solar System?
Europa, a Galilean moon of Jupiter, whose subsurface ocean is estimated at 62 miles deep, maybe deepest in our solar system, according to The Daily Galaxy.
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jupiter moon io: hotspot in outer solar system
Scientists are excited about possibility of life in outer reaches of solar system. Three moons attract much interest: Europa, Titan and Enceladus previously covered here. Europa with its global-wide ocean […]
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life in the outer solar system
Europa seems high on a short list of worlds to explore. The Jovian moon has a global-wide ocean underneath a surface of solid ice, the prospect of finding life seems […]
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Lake Vostok Mystery
Mystery builds as Russians quit drilling for season. The drill lies less than 50 feet from subglacial Lake Vostok environment. Russians leave a two mile borehole filled with kerosene to prevent freezing, until drilling resumes in December.