Europe, Jupiter’s satellite, has long been one of the most fascinating bodies in our Solar System: a icy world formed by an ice crust, an underground ocean and a rocky core. For astrobiology, this environment is one of the most promising places in our entire Solar System for the search for extraterrestrial life. But studying the water of an ocean located under miles of an impenetrable layer of ice is a technological challenge that is currently u…
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Europe, Jupiter’s satellite, has long been one of the most fascinating bodies in our Solar System: a icy world formed by an ice crust, an underground ocean and a rocky core. For astrobiology, this environment is one of the most promising places in our entire Solar System for the search for extraterrestrial life. But studying the water of an ocean located under miles of an impenetrable layer of ice is a technological challenge that is currently u…