Instruments To Sniff Europa Plumes, But Not For Evidence Of Life

A suite of nine state-of-the-art remote-sensing instruments that NASA has selected for its planned mission to Europa will sample the plumes of water ice believed to be erupting from the Jovian moon’s subsurface ocean to see if it is habitable, but not to look for evidence of life. Discovery of the...

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