Space Daily·2 min read·medium
Jupiter's moon Europa hides a saltwater ocean that may contain more than twice the water of all Earth's oceans combined, yet a new measurement puts 29 kilometres of solid ice above it, a barrier talle
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New measurements indicate that Jupiter's moon Europa is covered by a 29-kilometer thick layer of solid ice. Despite this barrier, the moon is believed to harbor a massive saltwater ocean containing more water than all of Earth's oceans combined.
Europa is smaller than Earth’s Moon, yet the ocean hidden inside it may hold more than twice as much water as every ocean on Earth combined. That contrast has always been the part of Europa I find hardest to picture. A world only 3,120 kilometres acr... [14014 chars]
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