Water Vapor Detected In Europa’s Atmosphere
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- Paul Morris
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Europa harbors a vast ocean underneath its icy surface, which might offer conditions hospitable for life. This result advances astronomers' understanding of the atmospheric structure of icy moons, and helps lay the groundwork for planned science missions to the Jovian system to, in part, explore whether an environment half-a-billion miles from the Sun could support life.
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Additional Credits:
Artist’s Impressions of a Water Atmosphere on Europa: ESA/Hubble, J. da Silva
Galileo Spacecraft’s Image of Europa: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Music Credits:
"Maps of Deception" by Idriss-El-Mehdi Bennani [SACEM], Olivier Louis Perrot [SACEM], and Philippe Andre Vandenhende [SACEM] via Sound Pocket Music [PRS] and Universal Production Music.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, please credit individual items as indicated above.
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- Paul Morris (KBRwyle) [Lead]
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- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET)
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