Hubble took pictures of a giant erupting cryovolcanism Europe

Images confirm that the surface of Europe there are existing geysers.

NASA unveiled the images existing on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, cryovolcanism. Photos are available on the Agency’s website dedicated to the cryovolcano study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Pictures taken by the Hubble space telescope in 2014 and 2016. On them it is noticeable that the height of the water emission in the first case is 50 kilometers and 100 in the second. The cryovolcano are in place abnormally warm area (about minus 178 degrees Celsius) on the surface of Europa, which was first discovered by Galileo station.

These images confirm that the surface of Europe there are existing geysers. Their existence is due, scientists believe, the presence in the bowels of the satellite of Jupiter subsurface ocean and active hydrothermal sources.

These sources, as scientists believe, can be favorable for origin of life conditions. To detect possible traces in 2020-ies, NASA and the European space Agency’s planned mission to Jupiter’s moon.

Earlier in the Cassini data showed that the interior of Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, there are favorable conditions for the origin and existence of life. Scientists say that most likely hydrothermal activity on Enceladus and Europe are similar, however, to fly to the moons of Jupiter are cheaper and faster than the moon of Saturn, also, probably Europe older than Enceladus, so the probability of the origin of life in the depths of the first celestial body is higher than inside the second.

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