{"id":125614,"date":"2021-07-28T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasa-detects-water-vapor-on-jupiters-ganymede-the-largest-moon-in-the-solar-system"},"modified":"2021-07-28T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T05:22:17","slug":"nasa-detects-water-vapor-on-jupiters-ganymede-the-largest-moon-in-the-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/nasa-detects-water-vapor-on-jupiters-ganymede-the-largest-moon-in-the-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"NASA detects water vapor on Jupiter\u2019s Ganymede \u2014 the largest moon in the solar system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SxvJ3a0bCbY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reviewing the images of Ganymede\u2019s aurora, the team discovered that, as the moon\u2019s surface temperature rises and falls throughout the day, it becomes warm enough around noon near the equator for sublimation to occur, releasing water molecules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a wider sense, this discovery shows that often one needs to know what to focus on when analyzing data. The signal from H2O was present in the HST images since 1998,\u201d said lead author Lorenz Roth. \u201cOnly with additional information through new data and predictions from theoretical studies, we knew what to look for and where to search for it. There are likely many more things to discover in the gigantic dataset that the Hubble Space Telescope has accumulated over its three decades in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Where there\u2019s water, there could be life as we know it. Astronomers say that finding liquid water beyond Earth is crucial in our hunt for other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/astronomers-discover-nearby-super-earths-could-potentially-host-life-11-light-years-away\/\" target=\"_blank\">habitable worlds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewing the images of Ganymede\u2019s aurora, the team discovered that, as the moon\u2019s surface temperature rises and falls throughout the day, it becomes warm enough around noon near the equator for sublimation to occur, releasing water molecules. \u201cIn a wider sense, this discovery shows that often one needs to know what to focus on when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}