{"id":184671,"date":"2024-03-09T02:45:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/junos-groundbreaking-discovery-surprising-oxygen-insights-from-europas-close-flyby"},"modified":"2024-03-09T02:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T08:45:45","slug":"junos-groundbreaking-discovery-surprising-oxygen-insights-from-europas-close-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/junos-groundbreaking-discovery-surprising-oxygen-insights-from-europas-close-flyby","title":{"rendered":"Juno\u2019s Groundbreaking Discovery: Surprising Oxygen Insights From Europa\u2019s Close Flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/junos-groundbreaking-discovery-surprising-oxygen-insights-from-europas-close-flyby.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours \u2013 enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientists with NASA \u2019s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 in <em><i>Nature Astronomy<\/i><\/em>, the findings were derived by measuring hydrogen outgassing from the icy moon\u2019s surface using data collected by the spacecraft\u2019s Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u2019s authors estimate the amount of oxygen produced to be around 26 pounds every second (12 kilograms per second). Previous estimates range from a few pounds to over 2,000 pounds per second (over 1,000 kilograms per second). Scientists believe that some of the oxygen produced in this manner could work its way into the moon\u2019s subsurface ocean as a possible source of metabolic energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours \u2013 enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. Scientists with NASA \u2019s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184671","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}