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October 04, 2016

A Second Look at Plumes and the Search for life on Europa
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2016
Once can be a coincidence. Twice can be luck. Seeing a hundred-mile-high column of water spew out of Jupiter's icy moon Europa three times in a row has been cited as a good reason to get excited. Plumes - great jets of subsurface water forced through the moon's thick ice sheet - were first spotted spraying out of Europa's southern pole in December 2012. At least, that's what the scientific community hoped was going on when Hubble first captured images of something bright in the ultraviolet spectru ... read more

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