Water plumes over Europa |
Water plumes over Europa |
Dec 12 2013, 04:55 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 5-January 07 From: Manchester England Member No.: 1563 |
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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Dec 16 2013, 10:46 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I kinda said this earlier, but it it possible that the radiation environment dissociates plumes into atomic constituents almost immediately (well, at least in too short a time frame to catch the molecular effluent in action using the imaging systems that have been close enough in the Jovian system to date)?
Given the apparent volume of the ground-based plume image & even if the activity is highly sporadic it sure seems like we should have seen something visible long before. Io vents mostly sulfur compounds; lots heavier than hydrogen & oxygen, and with colorful allotropic states to boot. Not asserting this as a theory, just throwin' it out there for consideration. -------------------- 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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