Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean
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- A 2026 study modelling Europa's interior finds its seafloor is probably too quiet for the hydrothermal vents that support life in Earth's oceans, while a separate paper the same month proposes nutrients could reach its ocean anyway, carried down by sinkin Space Daily · 4d ago
- APOD: 1998 January 02 NASA Science (.gov) · 4d ago
- Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean Space · 4d ago broke it first
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