March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... It was during an observation of these UV emissions that a surplus of oxygen and hydrogen spectral lines were detected near Europa’s south pole. The emission was characteristic of water vapour being dissociated by the impacts of high energy electrons...
05 November 2018
First global thermal map of Europa reveals curious cold spot
... as an ocean world with potential geologic activity, Europa’s surface temperatures are of great interest because they ... interesting because they provide the first global map of Europa’s thermal emission,” said Samantha Trumbo, a planetary scientist...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
...centimetre (0.4 inches) at middle- and high-latitudes, I.e towards Europa’s poles. Although amino acids are not strictly a sign of ...in high radiation environments. "The radiation that bombards Europa's surface leaves a fingerprint," said Kevin Hand, ...
27 September 2016
Astronomers observe possible water vapour plumes on Europa
..., had originally planned to find out whether the enigmatic moon has a thin, extended atmosphere, or exosphere by observing Europa's limb as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. "The atmosphere of an extrasolar planet blocks some of the starlight that...
13 March 2017
Europa Clipper: the official name of NASA's mission to Europa
... have already been selected for the craft, such as cameras and spectrometers to produce high-resolution images of Europa’s surface to determine its composition, along with a magnetometer to measure the strength and direction of the moon’s magnetic...
14 May 2018
Best evidence yet for plumes on Europa
... the MAG data acquired on Galileo’s closest encounter with Europa is fully consistent with the perturbations expected if the spacecraft... in September, 2003 to prevent an unwanted impact with Europa, but the legacy of its treasure-trove of data ...
