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Re-analyzing Old Data Reveals New Evidence at Europa

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Published: May 14, 2018

New science, mined from the archives. Data from NASA's Galileo orbiter launched a generation ago yields new evidence of plumes, eruptions of water vapor, from Jupiter's moon Europa.

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