Evidence of Water Plumes Spotted on Europa

NASA says it has spotted evidence of large water plumes shooting 200 kilometers over Jupiter’s moon Europa. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers found water vapor above the moon’s south pole, which they say is likely from plumes of water shooting out of large ocean under Europa’s icy crust. "By far the simplest explanation for this water vapor is that it erupted from plumes on the surface of Europa," said Lorenz Roth of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio,...

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