The simulation reveals an ocean able to emerge on the moon of Jupiter

Animation – the two-dimensional simulation of a possible cross-section of a band that runs through the ice sheet of this satellite – showed that the lower end is the ocean and a thick white line at the top represents the surface ice.

Experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the US Space Agency focused on the linear features called "bands" and "grooves" that lie on the moons of Europe and Ganymede of Jupiter [19659003InthestudytheyusedthesamenumericalmodeltosolvemysteriesonmovementintheEarth'scrust

Animation As the ice layer is deformed by gravitational interactions with Jupiter, the fragility of the surface separates while the upper layer forms, closes, re-forms and allows the lower half to fill with frozen pieces of ice. # 39; ocean. [19659003] These pieces of the ocean are described by researchers as oceanic fossil materials because they take millions of years in transit to the surface, where they can be studied by a spacecraft.

This study could be confirmed in the early 2020s with the launch of the Europa Clipper spacecraft which will revolve around Jupiter and become the first to study exclusively in Europe, including the composition of the lunar surface material.

If Europe behaves in the way suggested by simulation, could take oceanic material to the moon's surface, where Europa Clipper would badyze it remotely using infrared instruments and a spaceship ultraviolet, among others.

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