Oxygen Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon Europa, Hubble finds

This animation depicts the presence of an extremely tenuous atmosphere of molecular oxygen around Jupiter's moon, Europa. It's icy surface is exposed to sunlight and is impacted by dust and charged particles trapped within Jupiter's intense magnetic field. Combined, these processes cause the frozen water ice on the surface to produce water vapor as well as gaseous fragments of water molecules. After the gas molecules are produced, they undergo a series of chemical reactions that ultimately form molecular hydrogen and oxygen. The relatively lightweight hydrogen gas escapes into space, while the heavier oxygen molecules accumulate to form an atmosphere which may extend 125 miles (200 kilometers) above the surface. The oxygen gas slowly leaks into space and must be replenished continuously.

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[bledarhater23]

dude, if you are willing to make a video for you tube, than make one that is actually worth seeing

[android90beats]

the death star

[kebabica]

once i saw two guys kissing on a park bench and it was the gayest thing ive ever seen........ untill now

[ChatterBoxBoy]

thats no moon

THATS THE DEATH STAR

[Marzz5585]

Jeez, complete Fail on that title man.. Either your too Lazy to make something worthwhile, or your just spamming youtube with crap.

[MoonarEclipse]

what is this i dont even

[Max0Inq]

Well said.

[Cassandra649]

I sure hope your right Boss5414 :)

[pluto4847]

@Cassandra649

You are right on!

I hate it when people think we should fix Earth's problems before we live on other worlds. I mean Earth as we know it will be ruined. There will never be world peace so I'd like to be genetically modified into a Fish humanoid to live in Europa. Europa here I come!

[Boss5414]

@Cassandra649

I agree, the conditions will get worse if we take no action about it (Look at Beijing), but luckily we will revert to better, more effecient, less pollutent causing energy sources, such as hydrogen cars or wind energy.

Maybe soon in the future we will have better ones?

[Cassandra649]

whatever you say...........rolls eyes

[Quartrez]

Well, by "themselves" I mean everything organic on it but... it may sound cruel or somewhat unfair, but every living thing on Earth really doesn't matter on the scale of the Universe.