May 18, 2016

Europa's surface with its icy crust full of fractures (Photo NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute)

An article published in the journal “Geophysical Research Letters” describes a research on chemical characteristics existing in the underground ocean of Europa, one of the planet Jupiter’s big moons. A team of scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team (JPL) compared the potential to produce hydrogen and oxygen with that of the Earth, concluding that they’re comparable.