{"id":78650,"date":"2018-05-14T12:22:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T19:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-a-plume-of-water-on-jupiters-moon-europa"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:09:10","slug":"spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-a-plume-of-water-on-jupiters-moon-europa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-a-plume-of-water-on-jupiters-moon-europa","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft May Have Flown Right Through a Plume of Water on Jupiter\u2019s Moon Europa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-a-plume-of-water-on-jupiters-moon-europa.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along\u2014they just don\u2019t think to ask the question. For example, it appears that in 1997, the Galileo orbiter flew through a jet of water shooting out from Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa without even trying.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists think that Europa has an ocean below its icy surface, which could be a big deal. When we hear water, we think \u201clife,\u201d and maybe life found a way in Europa\u2019s ocean. Recent Hubble space telescope images appeared to show evidence for this ocean in the form of plumes of water shooting forth from cracks in the moon\u2019s surface ice. So, a team of researchers in the U.S. thought, maybe there\u2019s more evidence for these plumes elsewhere, like in 20-year-old data from the Galileo orbiter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t planned out,\u201d study author Xianzhe Jia from the University of Michigan told Gizmodo. \u201cIt just so happened that the spacecraft passed through a region where we saw plumes. It was fortuitous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-a-plume-of-wate-1826006318\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/spacecraft-may-have-flown-right-through-...1826006318<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, scientists have the answers all along\u2014they just don\u2019t think to ask the question. For example, it appears that in 1997, the Galileo orbiter flew through a jet of water shooting out from Jupiter\u2019s moon Europa without even trying. Scientists think that Europa has an ocean below its icy surface, which could be a big [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78650","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78719,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78650\/revisions\/78719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}