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Evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede

Incredives

31 Jul 2021

According to a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy, water vapour forms when ice from the moon’s surface turns from solid directly into gas, a process called sublimation. Astronomers have uncovered the first evidence of water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede by using new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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