According to data sent by the Juno probe, one of Jupiter's moons, Europa, produces a thousand tons of oxygen per day.
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft shows that Jupiter's icy moon produces enough oxygen for about a thousand people per day. He writes the Interesting engineerg. The spacecraft flew close to the celestial body in September 2022, passing Europe just 354 kilometers away.
The researchers hypothesize that oxygen is not only present in the air, but it may also have seeped into the ocean beneath the surface of the ice, so life may have developed there.
The four largest moons orbiting Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto) were discovered by Galileo Galilei more than four hundred years ago. Astronomers have long considered Europa one of the main targets in the search for extraterrestrial life, and soon the icy celestial body may reveal more of its secrets thanks to the US space agency's Europa Clipper mission.
The purpose of the Clipper mission is to map Europa's surface, determine its composition, measure the thickness of its ice cover, and determine the depth and salinity of the subsurface ocean.
