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Mike Wehner
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- Europa, a moon of Jupiter, is one of the few places in our solar system where we might be able to find life.
- New research focused on the water plumes that spew from its surface and attempted to explain them.
- A theory suggests that the plumes are water that was trapped in ice bubbles after impacts from asteroids or comets.
Of all the worlds in our solar system, Jupiter's frosty moon Europa is one of the most interesting in terms of the hunt for life. Researchers once thought it was just a frozen ball of ice, but more recent observations and missions to its host planet Jupiter have revealed the moon has reserves of liquid water, and it's possible that that water provides everything that life needs to exist on the distant moon.
Our first hints that water exists within the icy moon came in the form of cones of ice particles spotted near large fissures in its surface. This indicates that liquid water is spewing out into space, and that something within the moon is keeping that water warm. Now, researchers have proposed an explanation as to why this water is shot out into space on such a regular basis.
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