Jupiter’s Moon Europa Is Pulling Down Oxygen to Sustain Life Beneath Surface: Research
Jupiter's Moon Europa is among a few celestial bodies being probed intensely to know whether it hosts or could host life. Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, has been hiding an ocean beneath its frozen surface. Evidence indicates it could be warm, salty, and rich in life-enabling chemistry. While it is known Europa generates oxygen when sunlight and charged particles from Jupiter strike the moon's surface, for life to find a home in the subsurface ocean, oxygen has to reach there. But there's a problem.…