James Webb discovers carbon sources on the moon Europa.

The James Webb space telescope has set its sights on Jupiter's moon Europa and has found a source of carbon on its surface. Europa is one of Jupiter's large moons, it is 3,121 kilometers in diameter, which makes it a little smaller than Our moon, the most interesting thing is that it is one of the few worlds in our solar system that can potentially have the right conditions for life to have emerged on it.

Previous research has shown that beneath its ice crust lies a salty ocean of liquid water with a rocky seabed, however, planetary scientists had not confirmed whether or not that ocean contained the chemicals necessary for life. particularly in carbon, now astronomers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope have identified carbon dioxide in a specific region of Europa's icy surface.

The analyzes indicate that this carbon does not come from meteorites or external sources, but possibly originated in the surface ocean, what is superficial is because it is not underground, it is not underground, but under a thick layer of ice, in addition, it is also have discovered that carbon dioxide is not stable on the surface of Europa and ends up disappearing over time, so the carbon detected had to appear on a geologically recent time scale.

And this is one of the main researchers, Gerónimo Villanueva is from Mendoza, Argentina, he works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, he is the main author of the articles that describe these findings that are in the news now, he is the Messi of the search for extraterrestrial oceans, since some time ago he did magnificent work on the Ancient Ocean of Mars, he has also done work on Comets and now he has done a splendid job in this search for the essential elements for life on the moon Europa.

Thanks to this work we now know that the cocktail of elements for life in Europe is very varied and one last curiosity, the James Webb space telescope works with a very tight schedule, all the scientists in the world send their proposals so that it points to a great variety of objectives this discovery took the web only a few minutes, imagine the amount of things we will be able to discover when the data and observation times of the James webb space telescope are accumulated.

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