Blog Post Image: A Window into Europa’s Ocean Right at the Surface

Based on new evidence from Jupiter’s moon Europa, astronomers hypothesize that chloride salts bubble up from the icy moon’s global liquid ocean and reach the frozen surface where they are bombarded with sulfur from volcanoes on Jupiter’s innermost large moon Io. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (Click image to enlarge)

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