NASA Hubble Telescope found more water evidence on Jupiter's moon

NASA Hubble Telescope found more water evidence on Jupiter's moon

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NASA's Hubble Telescope has found more evidence of water on the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. It is one of the 50 moons orbiting the gas giant and is also considered to be a "top candidate" for life elsewhere in the solar system. NASA sees Europa as a potential candidate to sustain life, thanks to its massive, salty, subsurface ocean.


Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 79 known moons of Jupiter. 



It is also the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and was named after Europa, the Phoenician mother of King Minos of Crete and lover of Zeus (the Greek equivalent of the Roman god Jupiter).

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NASA Hubble Telescope found more water evidence on Jupiter's moon