Water plumes over Europa |
Water plumes over Europa |
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This seems like the relevant place to post this (could be wrong): Water plumes from Europa? Apologies if it's already been up. The link to the Science article at the bottom doesn't work for me, does anyone have a working link to the original? Cheers.
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
I wonder about that. Certainly the Jovian system gets more than its share of comet & asteroid impacts...what have we seen, two or three since the early 1990s, now that we know what we look for?
I don't see why Europa could not have obtained abundant carbon from these infalls. We seemingly don't have any way to assess its impact history any further back than 10 million years or so, which is not surprising for what seems to be a dynamic surface environment. I look forward to any sort of exploration of this moon. There are a LOT of questions to be answered, and doubtless we'll have even more later. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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