Composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting on Europa (IMAGE)
Caption
This composite image shows suspected plumes of water vapor erupting at the 7 o’clock position off the limb of Jupiter’s moon Europa. The plumes, photographed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph, were seen in silhouette as the moon passed in front of Jupiter. The Hubble data were gathered on January 26, 2014. The image of Europa, superimposed on the Hubble data, is assembled from data from the Galileo and Voyager missions.
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Credits: NASA/ESA/W. Sparks (STScI)/USGS Astrogeology Science Center.
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