Another hint of Europa’s watery plumes found in 20-year-old Galileo data

A new analysis suggests the spacecraft saw water vapor jetting from Jupiter’s icy moon

Europa

HIDDEN DEPTHS  Evidence is growing that plumes of water erupt through the icy surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, seen in this composite image taken by the Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

JPL-Caltech/NASA, SETI Institute

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may have been spitting into space for at least 20 years.