Newly understood instrumentation readings returned in the 1990s from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in orbit of Jupiter have revealed that the craft not only encountered but also flew through ejecta ...

However, unlike Saturn's moon Enceladus, where plumes are a predictable and common occurrence, Europa's plumes have been somewhat spotty, leading some researchers to doubt plumes exist at all on ...

Planetary scientist Ujjwal Raut ’01 joins a NASA mission exploring a moon with the potential for life in our ... So the idea is to find and characterize the nature of these putative plumes of Europa.” ...

NASA scientists say images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014 suggest there may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.

Europa Clipper - one of the most advanced spacecraft ever sent to another planet - aims to explore Jupiter's icy moon ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

This includes the ESA's JUpiter ICy moon's Explorer (JUICE ... attractive because of the nature of the plumes around its south pole. Whereas Europa also experiences plume activity, these are ...

NASA has captured the highest-resolution photo of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons. The image, which NASA released last week, showcases over 93 by 125 miles of surface region on the moon.

Though Europa is only the size of our own moon, it holds more water than all ... ocean as pieces of the crust slide under each other. Plumes and deep fissures may provide other routes into the ...

Cassini first discovered evidence of a vast ocean on Enceladus by spotting plumes of water vapor jutting ... on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Two close-ups of its moon Europa—where astrobiologists think microbial ... to hide a liquid ocean— and hunt for previously seen plumes of water vapor. At Callisto, during 21 flybys JUICE ...

Europa Clipper Mission: US space agency NASA has launched a spacecraft to Europa, Jupiter’s moon, to ascertain if it can support life in the ocean beneath its icy shell. This USD 5 billion ...