{"id":436318,"date":"2022-04-23T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/water-on-jupiters-moon-closer-to-surface-than-thought-study\/"},"modified":"2022-04-23T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:30:02","slug":"water-on-jupiters-moon-closer-to-surface-than-thought-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/water-on-jupiters-moon-closer-to-surface-than-thought-study\/","title":{"rendered":"#Water on Jupiter&#8217;s moon closer to surface than thought: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38312f6270a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a38312f6270a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/water-on-jupiters-moon-closer-to-surface-than-thought-study\/#%E2%80%9CWater_on_Jupiters_moon_closer_to_surface_than_thought_study%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Water on Jupiter&#8217;s moon closer to surface than thought: study&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWater_on_Jupiters_moon_closer_to_surface_than_thought_study%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Water on Jupiter&#8217;s moon closer to surface than thought: study&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/the-surface-of-jupiter.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/the-surface-of-jupiter.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland's ice sheet.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/the-surface-of-jupiter.jpg\" alt=\"The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland's ice sheet\" title=\"The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland's ice sheet.\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                The surface of Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa is criss-crossed with double ridges which are similar to those in Greenland&#8217;s ice sheet.<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article-banner first-banner ads-336x280\">\n         <!-- \/4988204\/Phys_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Europa has long been a candidate for finding life in our solar system due to its vast ocean, which is widely thought to contain liquid water\u2014a key ingredient for life.<\/p>\n<p>There is a problem: the ocean is predicted to be buried 25-30 kilometers (15-17 miles) beneath the moon&#8217;s icy shell.<\/p>\n<p>However water could be closer to the surface than previously thought, according to new research published in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The finding came partly by chance, when geophysicists studying an ice sheet in Greenland watched a presentation about Europa and spotted a feature they recognized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were working on something totally different related to climate change and its impact on the surface of Greenland when we saw these tiny double ridges,&#8221; said the study&#8217;s senior author Dustin Schroeder, a geophysics professor at Stanford University.<\/p>\n<p>They realized that the M-shaped icy crests on Greenland looked like smaller versions of double ridges on Europa, which are the most common feature on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Europa&#8217;s double ridges were first photographed by NASA&#8217;s Galileo spacecraft in the 1990s, but little was known about how they were formed.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists used ice-penetrating radar to observe that Greenland&#8217;s ridges were formed when water pockets around 30 meters (100 feet) below the ice sheet&#8217;s surface refroze and fractured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is particularly exciting, because scientists have been studying double ridges on Europa for more than 20 years and have not yet come to a definitive answer for how double ridges form,&#8221; said lead study author Riley Culberg, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was the first time that we were able to watch something similar h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en on Earth and actually observe the subsurface processes that led to the formation of the ridges,&#8221; he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Europa&#8217;s double ridges also form in this way, it suggests that shallow water pockets must have been (or maybe still are) extremely common.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>&#8216;Life has a shot&#8217;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Europa&#8217;s water pockets could be buried five kilometers beneath the moon&#8217;s ice shell\u2014but that would still be much easier to access than the far deeper ocean. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Particularly if such water pockets form because ocean water was forced up through fractures into the ice shell, then it&#8217;s possible that they would preserve evidence of any life in the ocean itself,&#8221; Culberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Water closer to the surface would also contain &#8220;interesting chemicals&#8221; from space and other moons, increasing the &#8220;possibility that life has a shot,&#8221; Schroeder said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>We may not have too long to wait to find out more.<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Europa Clipper mission, scheduled to launch in 2024 and arrive in 2030, will have ice-penetrating radar equipment similar to that used by the scientists studying Greenland&#8217;s double ridges.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft is unlikely to find definitive proof of life because it will not land on Europa, instead flying by and analyzing it.<\/p>\n<p>But hopes remain high. The moon&#8217;s ocean is predicted to have more water than all of Earth&#8217;s seas combined, according to the Europa Clipper&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is life in Europa, it almost certainly was completely independent from the origin of life on Earth&#8230; that would mean the origin of life must be pretty easy throughout the galaxy and beyond,&#8221; project scientist Robert Pappalardo said on the website.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                            Explanation for formation of abundant features on Europa bodes well for search for extraterrestrial life\n                                        <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n                                                                                                <strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n                                                Riley Culberg, Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa, <i>Nature Communications<\/i> (2022).  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-022-29458-3\">DOI: 10.1038\/s41467-022-29458-3<\/a>. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-29458-3\">www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-022-29458-3<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 AFP<\/p>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>                                                 <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                 Water on Jupiter&#8217;s moon closer to surface than thought: study (2022, April 23)<br \/>\n                                                 retrieved 23 April 2022<br \/>\n                                                 from https:\/\/phys.org\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2022-04-jupiter-moon-closer-surface-thought.html<\/p>\n<p>                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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