Europa, a moon of Jupiter, appears as a thick crescent in this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 1995. The view combines images taken in violet ...
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Europa's icy surface is changing fast, hinting at ocean below, says new NASA-backed study
A new study combining data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and laboratory experiments led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) suggests that the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa is ...
Last week, NASA’s Juno completed its flyby of Europa providing the closest view of this celestial object in two decades. The second moon of Jupiter hides a deep ocean beneath its icy exterior and is ...
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Europa’s ice-covered ocean contains a key ingredient for life, and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just spotted it splashed across the surface of the little moon’s jagged ice. Observations with ...
Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region on the icy surface of Europa. Jupiter's moon Europa is one of a handful of worlds in ...
SwRI is leading two “Precursor Science Investigations for Europa” teams to understand critical topics in advance of NASA’s Europa Clipper mission to the Jupiter moon. Both projects are investigating ...
The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.
It could be easier than we thought to find evidence of life on the icy surfaces of moons like Europa and Enceladus. Far from the Sun, in the outer Solar System, a small handful of icy moons orbiting ...
The Europa SUrface Dust Analyzer, developed at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Next year, technology developed at CU Boulder will begin a journey ...
Europa is more than just one of Jupiter’s many moons – it’s also one of most promising places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life. Under 10 kilometers of ice is a liquid water ocean ...
The problem is that Europa is the only world in the solar system that's not ours to explore. As the monolith said: "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them ...
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