Monday, September 26, 2016

Water Plumes on Europa - Miles Shickman

One of Jupiter's moons, Europa, has been getting attention from alien enthusiasts for years, since it has late oceans underneath layers of ice. This has led NASA to plan a mission to Europa involving complicated machinery to dig holes and collect water samples. As we found out recently, that might not be necessary. In 2012, an eruption of water was sighted coming out of the surface. Like all discoveries, however, we needed to double check and verify. No further evidence was found until we recently analyzes pictures taken in 2014 by the Hubble Telescope that showed more plumes. This significantly changes NASA's Europa program, set to launch in 2020. Who knows? Maybe we will find someone out there after all.

Link: https://www.google.com/amp/amp.space.com/34196-jupiter-moon-europa-giant-water-plumes.html

3 comments:

  1. This is very interesting maybe we will find other life forms

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  2. It's really cool to know that there could me other life forms out there after all, and it seems the evidence is only increasing.

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  3. This makes me wonder about all the possibilities of the different beings that can live on that moon.

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