Enceladusand Europa
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Subject: Science and tech
Context:
Plumes of water erupt from Europa and Enceladus which indicates that these bodies have subsurface oceans beneath their ice shells.
Concept:
- Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa may support life, because scientists have spotted water plumes bursting from their icy shells.
- A mathematical calculation by NASA scientists guesses that more than a quarter of the several dozen exoplanets they have analysed could be ‘water worlds’.
- This includes some members of the Trappist-1 system which is about forty light years away.