Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have shown carbon dioxide on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa – that’s a good sign for the habitability of its buried seas
, where the ground is jumbled in what’s called chaos terrain – a mess of pits, ridges, cracks and domes. Tara Regio is considered to be a relatively young area of the surface, shaped by interactions with the underground ocean over the past several million years.“The strongest signal is coming from the chaos terrain, which is geologically fresher than other areas of Europa,” saysat NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
” The concentrations were also raised in other areas of chaos terrain, and were not a match to whatThis is good for the prospect ofsince all known living organisms rely on carbon as a building block for more complex molecules called organics. “Carbon is a biologically crucial element, so it’s important to figure out how it got to Europa, how much of it is there, and in what form it’s there,” saysSo far, JWST has only taken one look at Europa.
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