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Nasa Research Reveals Europa's Mystery Dark Material Could Be Sea Salt
The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
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.
From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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