... have melted its silicate mantle through time to feed volcanoes on the ocean floor. Wedged between Io and Ganymede, Europa is kept warm internally through radiogenic heating – heat generated by the decay of radioactive isotopes – and via...
... three years making detailed observations of the giant gaseous planet Jupiter and three of its largest moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Data collected from the mission will be used by scientists to hopefully learn more about...