Europa volcanism & interior heating modeled in detail, offers research targets for upcoming missions
Source: NASA Spaceflight
Date Published: 06/18/2021
Europa, an icy Jovian moon that likely possesses an ocean beneath its icy crust, may have an interior that is hot enough to produce volcanic activity on its seafloor. New research provides evidence that this seafloor volcanism likely occurred in the moon’s past and maybe ongoing at present as well.
