{"id":30531,"date":"2016-09-26T18:47:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/hubble-might-have-just-caught-jets-of-water-squirting-out-of-europa"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:13","slug":"hubble-might-have-just-caught-jets-of-water-squirting-out-of-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/hubble-might-have-just-caught-jets-of-water-squirting-out-of-europa","title":{"rendered":"Hubble might have just caught jets of water squirting out of Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hubble-might-have-just-caught-jets-of-water-squirting-out-of-europa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa \u2014 a giant ice ball thought to hide twice as much liquid water as there is on Earth \u2014 just became an even hotter target in the search for aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists on Monday unveiled new photographs from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, and they likely show \u2018fingers\u2019 of water vapour squirting out of Europa\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/oceans-on-planets-and-moons-infrographic-2015-9\">hidden ocean<\/a> and into space.<\/p>\n<p>The grainy Hubble photos, taken in 2014, suggest water plumes occasionally shoot 125 miles (200 km) into space, then rain back down on the surface. If true, this would be Hubble\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/europas-geysers-put-old-faithful-to-shame-2013-12\">second time catching Europa\u2019s water plumes<\/a> since 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hubble-may-have-caught-jets-of-water-squirting-out-of-a-potentially-habitable-moon\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hubble-may-have-caught-jets-of-w...table-moon<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa \u2014 a giant ice ball thought to hide twice as much liquid water as there is on Earth \u2014 just became an even hotter target in the search for aliens. Scientists on Monday unveiled new photographs from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, and they likely show \u2018fingers\u2019 of water vapour squirting out of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30531","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66145,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30531\/revisions\/66145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}