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NASA announced that Jupiter’s moon Europa produces enough oxygen to keep one million people alive for a day.

This drawing of Europa shows how its icy surface can glow even on the night side because Jupiter is constantly bombarding it with radiation.NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Juno mission found that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours. This amount is enough for one million people to breathe for a day, but… Read More »

Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa may have less oxygen than we thought

On Monday, March 4, scientists announced that they had managed to measure how much molecular oxygen (the type of oxygen we breathe on Earth) is likely present around Jupiter’s moon Europa. Although researchers have made estimates of the icy moon’s oxygen content in the past, the team says this is the first time this has… Read More »