The carbon appears to have spilled out of the moon's subsurface oceans, rather than arriving via a meteorite or other outside source.
is set to launch in October 2024 and arrive at Europa specifically in 2030, and will get closer to the moon’s surface than any spacecraft before it.
“Understanding the chemistry of Europa’s ocean will help us determine whether it’s hostile to life as we know it, or if it might be a good place for life,” said Geronimo Villanueva, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center and lead author of the other paper,Studying our solar system’s planets and moons is just one of the many, many jobs undertaken by the Webb Space Telescope since the observatory began science observations in July 2022.
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