Europa may not be as habitable as NASA thought

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New data pulled from NASA's Juno spacecraft show that Europa's oxygen levels may make the planet way less habitable than we thought.

One of the most exciting missions of the past decade, NASA's Juno mission, has helped us learn more about our solar system's gas giant, Jupiter, and the moons that surround it. Now, new data gathered by the little space probe could help us better understand Europa's oxygen levels, as well as how habitable the moon could be. A prevailing theory that has popped up in the past couple of years is that Jupiter's ice-covered moon, Europa, could actually be habitable.

Calculations made using that data show that Europa likely only produces around 26 pounds of oxygen per second. This is a far cry from previous estimations that Europa generates 2,205 pounds of oxygen per second. At just 26 pounds of oxygen per second, Europa would only generate a 'trickle' of oxygen instead of the torrential release that some scientists estimated .

 

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