Jupiter Moon Ganymede Has a Saltwater Ocean

03/13/2015 04:48AM

Jupiter Moon Ganymede Has a Saltwater Ocean

Nearly 500 million miles from the Sun lies a moon orbiting Jupiter that is slightly larger than the planet Mercury and may contain more water than all of Earth's oceans. Temperatures are so cold, though, that water on the surface of Ganymede freezes as hard as rock and the ocean lies roughly 100 miles below the crust. Nevertheless, where there is water there could be life as we know it. Though the presence of an ocean on Ganymede has been long predicted based on theoretical models, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has now found the best evidence for it to date.


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