Meltwater from the collision would sink into the ice ‘like a ship’, carrying oxidizers into the ocean
In the illustration, a comet impacts the surface of EuropaNASA/JPL-Caltech
20/12/2022
Updated at 12:09 p.m.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have just discovered that comet and asteroid impacts on the moon Europa could have helped transport the ‘bricks of life’, present on the surface of the satellite of Jupiter, up to its ocean …
