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NASA mission to discover if Jupiter moon can support life─── 11:50 Wed, 21 Aug 2019
NASA is moving ahead with an ambitious mission to explore a moon of Jupiter and discover whether it could support life.
The icy world Europa has the smoothest surface of any known solid object in the solar system, which - coupled with its apparent youth - has led scientists to believe that it could harbour an ocean beneath its outer crust.
It is a theory that has been well supported by a number of recent discoveries, including what were believed to be plumes of water spewing from the surface, as seen by astronomers through the Hubble Space Telescope.
It is a theory that has been well supported by a number of recent discoveries, including what were believed to be plumes of water spewing from the surface, as seen by astronomers through the Hubble Space Telescope.
