Water fountains on Jupiter's moon Europa

Jupiter's moon Europa may be the second satellite in the solar system, are blown into space from its icy surface water fountains. This is suggested by at least observations of the Hubble Space Telescope, which were presented in the past week. The fountains could be up to 200 kilometers extend far into space.

Jupiter 's moon Europa is always interesting : For some time , there were clear indications that conceals an ocean of liquid water beneath the icy surface of the moon. Now Hubble evidence for the regular occurrence of water vapor were discovered over the south pole of the moon on observations made with the Space Telescope. The reason for this could be steam fountains, as they were detected by the Cassini Saturn probe on Saturn's moon Enceladus .

" The simplest explanation for this far from water vapor are fountains that emanate from the surface of Europe" , is convinced Lorenz Roth from the Southwest Research Institute. "If these fountains are with the ocean in background in conjunction , of which we are certain that it exists beneath the crust of Europe, this means that one can study the chemical composition of these potentially life- friendly environment in Europe in future experiments without going through thick to drill ice . That's quite exciting. "

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