What is the surface of Europa made of?

water ice

How big is Europa vs Earth?

Size: Europa is 1,900 miles (3,100 km) in diameter, making it smaller than Earth’s moon, but larger than Pluto.

Is Europa in our solar system?

Europa may be the most promising place in our solar system to find present-day environments suitable for some form of life beyond Earth. Slightly smaller than Earth’s Moon, Europa’s water-ice surface is crisscrossed by long, linear fractures, cracks, ridges, and bands.

Could there be life under the surface of Europa?

Europa has many cracks in its otherwise smooth surface. A new study adds to the evidence that this subsurface ocean may be habitable. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SETI Institute.

Can humans live Europa?

Europa’s surface is blasted by radiation from Jupiter. That’s a bad thing for life on the surface – it couldn’t survive. But the radiation may create fuel for life in an ocean below the surface. The radiation splits apart water molecules (H2O, made of oxygen and hydrogen) in Europa’s extremely tenuous atmosphere.

Which planet is full of diamonds?

NASA has taken a closer look at 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet that earned the nickname “diamond planet” due to research that suggests it has a carbon-rich composition.

Will it ever be possible to travel to another galaxy?

The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity’s present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.

Is Travelling back in time possible?

The Short Answer: Although humans can’t hop into a time machine and go back in time, we do know that clocks on airplanes and satellites travel at a different speed than those on Earth. However, when we think of the phrase “time travel,” we are usually thinking of traveling faster than 1 second per second.