New Look at Europa Points to Huge Under-Ice Lakes of Liquid Water Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter, has long been known to have plenty of water. It’s covered with a massive ocean of water, it just lies beneath 20 km of ice. A new analysis of erupting volcanoes points to areas where water could pool as close as 3 km to the surface, making it even more likely to harbor some form of life! So how would we get there? Stop what you are doing and let adventurer Bill Stone tell you about his plans to send robotic submarine probes to Europa to drill through the ice and collect life. Uh-maz-ing. (via ScienceNOW)
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New Look at Europa Points to Huge Under-Ice Lakes of Liquid Water

Europa, a moon orbiting Jupiter, has long been known to have plenty of water. It’s covered with a massive ocean of water, it just lies beneath 20 km of ice.

A new analysis of erupting volcanoes points to areas where water could pool as close as 3 km to the surface, making it even more likely to harbor some form of life!

So how would we get there? Stop what you are doing and let adventurer Bill Stone tell you about his plans to send robotic submarine probes to Europa to drill through the ice and collect life. Uh-maz-ing.

(via ScienceNOW)

Source: news.sciencemag.org

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