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This Potentially Inhabited Moon Is Churning Out Enough Oxygen for 1 Million Humans

A JunoCam image of Europa.
A JunoCam image of Europa. Image: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Image processing: Kevin M. Gill

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa produces plenty of oxygen every day, according to new findings based on data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The moon has long been of interest to astrobiologists because of the possibility that life could exist in its subsurface ocean. – Isaac Schultz Read More