NASA Missions Provide New Insights into 'Ocean Worlds' in Our Solar System
Thursday, April 13, 2017 - 16:01
in Astronomy & Space
Recent observations of Jupiter's icy moon Europa by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a probable plume of material erupting from the moon's surface at precisely the same location as a similar apparent plume seen two years earlier by Hubble. These images bolster evidence that the plumes are a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the satellite.