EVIDENCE OF WATER FEATHER SEEN FIRING FROM JUPITER MOON

• NASA says it has spotted evidence of large water plumes shooting 200 kilometers over Jupiter’s moon Europa.

• An icy moon of Jupiter has been caught spitting into space. For the first time, a towering plume of water vapour has been seen coming from Europa. The discovery strengthens the case that the moon has a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust, and may even offer a way to taste its seas and search for signs of life.
  Now images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed a large cloud of hydrogen and oxygen – most likely in the form of water vapour – extending from the moon’s south pole.
• A model suggests that it is a plume 200 kilometres high that is spouting 3000 kilograms of water per second.
• This hinted that Europa has a relatively thin crust in which fissures sometimes open up and let water escape from a subsurface ocean. Similar rifts on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus shoot spectacular water geysers.
• “If there are plumes erupting, there’s got to be liquid water, and it’s got to be pretty close to the surface.”