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Europa may have a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface, which may be a habitable environment. This potential ocean was first noticed by the two Voyager spacecraft, and later backed by telescope studies from Earth. Current estimations consider that this ocean may contain twice the amount of water of all Earth's oceans combined, despite Europa's ...
A diagram depicting habitable zone boundaries across star type with September 2024 data, based on previous habitable zone diagrams. [1] Earth is plotted alongside 42 exoplanets with radii less than 2 times that of Earth or masses less than 5 times that of Earth, making them potentially rocky worlds in the habitable zone.
Europa's subsurface ocean is thought to be significantly [clarification needed] warmer however. It is hypothesized that because of radioactive and tidal heating (as mentioned in the sections above), there are points in the depths of Europa's ocean that may be only slightly cooler than Earth's oceans.
The oceans of Europa may be habitable, according to a new model developed by NASA. This moon — 3,100 km (1,900 miles) in diameter — is the fourth-largest moon orbiting Jupiter.
Europa's icy shell is currently believed to be 10-15 miles (15-25 km) thick, floating atop an ocean 40-100 miles (60-150 km) deep. AN OCEAN WORLD This moon is considered an "ocean world."
Europa Clipper will serve as NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to studying an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system, and it aims to determine whether the moon could be habitable for life ...
In 2012, scientists introduced a concept to define the habitable orbits of moons. [30] The concept is similar to the circumstellar habitable zone for planets orbiting a star, but for moons orbiting a planet. This inner border, which they call the circumplanetary habitable edge, delimits the region in which a moon can be habitable around its planet.
NASA’s Europa Clipper is set launch in October to explore the habitability of an ice-covered ocean world in our solar system after passing a key test. NASA sets sights on another ‘world that ...