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Hydrothermal Vents in Europa's Subsurface Ocean Appear to Be Releasing CO2

nautil.us

29 pointsrbanffy9 comments

Europa (Jupiter's moon), not Europe the continent on Earth!

Breathe a sigh of relief everyone, while we still can.

Well... Europe doesn't have a subsurface ocean ;-)

Just a lot of sub surface seas ~ 300km x 300km square x 500m deep .. eg: the 45,000 cubic km Upper Rhine aquifer

I now wonder what ecosystems could be there.

Some kind of hardened lifeforms ...

    Since the 1970s it has suffered increasingly serious pollution from nitrates, pesticides, chloride and VOCs.

I would only expect masochistic extremophiles to like that kind of place anyway.

We do but don't tell everyone because it'll be full of tourists too.

All these worlds are yours except Europa. Use them together. Use them in peace.