Researchers looked through almost 40-year-old data from the NASA Voyager 2 mission and found something unexpected.
When it comes to searching for habitable locations in our solar system and beyond, one of the key requirements for life as we know it is the presence of liquid water. Whether that’s a liquid water ocean on the planet’s surface like we have here on Earth, or an ocean beneath a thick, icy crust, which is thought to be found on some of Jupiter’s icy moons, this is the first and most important indicator of potential habitability.
Related Videos They found evidence that two of the moons, Ariel and Miranda, are giving off plasma, and it isn’t clear why. One reason could be that either or both of the moons have oceans beneath icy crusts and are throwing out particles in plumes.
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