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Prepping for Alien Oceans, NASA Goes Deep

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Scientific American

Publication Date
2017-09-21

In late 2012 NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted what appeared to be plumes of water vapor spewing from the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Another observation last year provided more evidence this was not a fluke. It is likely that below that distant world’s ice is an ocean larger than all of Earth’s combined. This created a frenzy in the astrobiological community—brimming with all that water, could Europa also have the necessary ingredients for life?

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/prepping-for-alien-oceans-nasa-goes-deep/