Scientists have released shocking new data about Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, after water vapor was first detected in its atmosphere by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
As they discover, this water vapor comes from the masses of ice that cover the surface. Previous research has shown that Ganymede has more water than all of Earth's oceans, which are in the form of ice due to extremely low temperatures. Therefore, it is estimated that large volumes of water from the largest satellite of our solar system are "buried" up to 100 kilometers below the icy surface.
So, astronomers, in an attempt to revise the observations of the last two decades of the Hubble Space Telescope, conducted a new research which showed the drops from the evaporation of ice in the atmosphere. It was found that near the equator, temperatures rise during the day, causing the atmosphere to heat up enough to release small amounts of water molecules.
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