NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean world

Jupiter’s satellite Europa almost certainly hides a global saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface. Chemistry at the ice surface and ocean-rock interface might provide the building blocks for life, and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will assess Europa’s habitability.

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Autores principales: Howell, Samuel M., Pappalardo, Robert T.
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7066167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32161262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15160-9
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spelling pubmed-70661672020-03-18 NASA’s Europa Clipper—a mission to a potentially habitable ocean world Howell, Samuel M. Pappalardo, Robert T. Nat Commun Comment Jupiter’s satellite Europa almost certainly hides a global saltwater ocean beneath its icy surface. Chemistry at the ice surface and ocean-rock interface might provide the building blocks for life, and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will assess Europa’s habitability. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7066167/ /pubmed/32161262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15160-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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