Wednesday, 13 May 2015

NASA Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt

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NASA laboratory experiments suggest the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter's moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean, discolored by exposure to radiation.





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Hubble Glimpses Galactic Gas Making a Getaway

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