Europa Water Vapor Plumes - More Hubble Evidence

  • Released Thursday, April 13, 2017
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured even more evidence of water vapor plumes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The probable plumes appear to be repeating in the same location and correspond with a relatively warm region on Europa's surface observed by the Galileo spacecraft.

Read the press release here - https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-missions-provide-new-insights-into-ocean-worlds-in-our-solar-system
View the release images on the HubbleSite here - http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2017-17
Read the science paper here - http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa67f8/pdf

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This page was originally published on Thursday, April 13, 2017.
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