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 24 2014, 01:07 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8785 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
I wouldn't characterize Enceladus' plumes as 'completely unexpected', though; the moon's association with the E-ring was strongly inferred prior to Cassini, and in hindsight it's about as robust an emission torus as anyone could hope for. Something was clearly going on there but the mechanism was not known.
By analogy, any eruptive activity on Europa must be both extremely transient and volumetrically small given the absence of anything remotely comparable to the E-ring. I wonder if the isolated Hubble observation could be best explained as the aftermath of an impact? -------------------- 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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