Glimpsing Eruptions on Europa
2014
Spencer, John R.
Second-closest to Jupiter (after Io) of the four large Galilean satellites, icy Europa is one of the strangest objects in the solar system (1). On page 171 of this issue, Roth et al. (2) present strong evidence for ongoing eruptions of plumes of water vapor from Europa's surface. This is a potentially major discovery, making Europa only the fourth object in the solar system known to exhibit ongoing internally powered geological activity, after Earth, Europa's volcanic neighbor moon Io, and Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]AGROVOC关键词
书目信息
出版者
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
其它主题
Water vapor
语言
英语
类型
Journal Article; Text
2024-02-27
MODS