A Second Look at Plumes and the Search for life on Europa

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 ... more

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