Space may be a water wonderland after all, as NASA announced that yet another moon has been found to be housing an ocean beneath its exterior crust.
Space may be a water wonderland after all, as NASA announced that yet another moon has been found to be housing an ocean beneath its exterior crust.
This time around it’s Jupiter’s largest satellite, Ganymede, that’s shown evidence of containing a massive liquid body.
Information gathered by astronomers indicates that there’s a very large saltwater ocean in the celestial body and it’s located just beneath its outermost icy layer.
The discovery came as a result of observations made with NASA’s Hubble telescope combined with existing knowledge of the orb’s unique properties.
Ganymede is the only moon in the solar system that has a magnetic field of its own.
That field produces strips of glowing gas, or aurorae, that move back and forth when there are changes in the magnetic activit