The discovery made using NASA's powerful space telescope brings scientists a step closer to determining if the salty water oceans of Europa could support life.
, is most abundant in a geologically young region called Tara Regio. Surface ice has been disrupted at this so-called"chaos terrain" area, indicating that material has been exchanged between Europa's icy surface and its subsurface ocean.
This graphic shows a map of Europa's surface with NIRCam in the first panel and compositional maps derived from NIRSpec/IFU data in the following three panels. In the compositional maps, the white pixels correspond to carbon dioxide in the large-scale region of disrupted chaos terrain known as Tara Regio , with additional concentrations within portions of the chaos region Powys Regio .
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