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HTTP:: Europa May Receive 100 Times More Oxygen than Thought
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Europa has been one of the favored targets in the solar system for experts looking for signs of life someplace else besides the Earth. Astronomers and astrobiologists have been drawn by the fact that the natural satellite features a smooth, craterless surface, an extended network of deep fractures, as well as a bright color. Together, these elements hint at the fact that an ocean of liquid water may still roam beneath the ices that make up the surface, and experts have wondered for a long time if oxygen can penetrate that deep. A new study suggests that it can, at a rate 100 times greater than first thought. Previous researches suggested that, indeed, some oxygen reached the waters underneath Europa's surface. However, the new study appears to indicate that the earlier models were incomplete, and that the amount of oxygen penetrating the crust might, in fact, be 100 times larger. This is the equivalent of the moon being able to hold as much as three million tons of fish, i!
f such creatures exist on Europa. In other words, it may be that the water holds sufficient amounts of oxygen to support not only basic life, but also more complex organisms, Wired reports. According to the mathematical model created by University of Arizona in Tucson (UAT) expert Richard Greenberg, it may have taken between on...
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