Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter's moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data indicated on Thursday, potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.
was in a 1,800 kilometre-wide area called Tara Regio, where there is a lot of"chaos terrain" with jagged ridges and cracks.
But the researchers could not rule out that the carbon came up from the planet's interior as rock-like carbonate minerals, which irradiation could then have broken apart to become COTable salt has also been detected in Tara Regio – making the area significantly more yellow than the rest of Europa's scarred white plains – and scientists think it may also have come up from the ocean.
Juice project scientist Olivier Witasse welcomed the two new studies, saying they were"very exciting".
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