NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt

Tuesday, May 12, 2015 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation.

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