In Depth | Europa – NASA Solar System Exploration
Europa has only a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen, but in 2013, NASA announced that researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope found evidence that Europa might be actively venting water into space. This would mean the moon is geologically active in the present day.
Europa 10 Things - NASA Solar System Exploration
Abundant liquid water, energy, and the right chemical elements make Europa one of the best places in the solar system to seek present-day life beyond Earth.
Europa By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 24, 2024 · Europa is one of the largest of Jupiter’s more than 90 moons. It's the sixth-closest moon to the planet.
Cassini - The Grand Finale – NASA Solar System Exploration
Oct 24, 2024 · By the next year, NASA’s Galileo mission revealed that Jupiter’s moon Europa likely has a global ocean that could be habitable. Since arriving at Saturn in 2004, Cassini showed that Europa isn’t an oddball: Potentially habitable ocean worlds exist even in the Saturn system -- 10 times farther from the sun than Earth.
NASA's Cassini Discovers Potential Liquid Water on Enceladus
Mar 8, 2006 · NASA's Cassini spacecraft may have found evidence of liquid water reservoirs that erupt in Yellowstone-like geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The rare occurrence of liquid water so near the surface raises many new questions about the mysterious moon.
Europa Jupiter System Mission - NASA Solar System Exploration
The baseline EJSM architecture consists the NASA-led Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO), and the ESA-led Jupiter Ganymede Orbiter (JGO). Complementary instruments monitor dynamic phenomena, map the Jovian magnetosphere and its interactions with the Galilean satellites, and characterize water oceans beneat
Galileo Findings Boost Idea of Other-Worldly Ocean
Jan 10, 2000 · When NASA's Galileo spacecraft swooped past Jupiter's moon Europa a week ago, it picked up powerful new evidence that a liquid ocean lies beneath Europa's icy crust.
Signs of Europa Plumes Remain Elusive in Search of Cassini Data
Dec 17, 2014 · Scientists would expect that ongoing plume activity at Europa, as Cassini has observed at Saturn's moon Enceladus, would inject large amounts of water vapor into the area around Europa's orbit if the plumes were large enough, but that is not what UVIS observed.
Galleries | Galileo – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jul 11, 2018 · San Andreas-like faults in the crust of Jupiter's icy moon Europa provide evidence that the crust, floating on a liquid water ocean, has slipped over the globe, so that the poles recently have wandered hundreds of miles, a University of …
UA Student Discovers Evidence for 'Wandering' Poles, …
Nov 29, 2001 · San Andreas-like faults in the crust of Jupiter's icy moon Europa provide evidence that the crust, floating on a liquid water ocean, has slipped over the globe, so that the poles recently have wandered hundreds of miles, a University of …