NASA’s teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 26, will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity on Europa, the teaser said.
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In order to present the new images of Jupiter’s Icy moon Europa captured by the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, a teleconference will be organised by the USA space agency NASA at 11:30 pm IST on Monday, September 26.
As scientists search for signs of life in our solar system, Europa is thought to be one of the most promising candidates.
Of course, NASA could be lying. The sixth-largest moon in the solar system, it is one of Jupiter’s 67 satellites.
The US space agency teased the discovery of some “surprising activity” out there, 390 million miles from Earth, citing the help of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. That mission will perform 45 flybys of the moon at varying altitudes from 16 miles above the surface to 1,700 miles above the surface.
Back in 2012, Hubble showed plumes of water vapor, shown as blue pixels above the Europa, likely rocketed more than 20 times the height of Mount Everest above Europa.
Put another way, chemicals besides water could travel from deep within Europa’s global ocean, through the icy crust, and out into space where Hubble can analyze them.
“The cycling of oxygen and hydrogen in Europa’s ocean will be a major driver for Europa’s ocean chemistry and any life there, just as it is on Earth”, NASA planetary geophysicist Steve Vance said in a press release in May.
It is thought to have an iron core, a rocky mantle and a surface ocean of salty water, like Earth.
Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division at Nasa Headquarters in Washington.
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NASA scientists were hoping that once the subsurface water ocean of Europa was unraveled, then they can investigate the chemical makeup of Europa’s potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.
