Sinking ice on Europa could deliver life’s ingredients to a hidden ocean, study finds A new study proposes that a geological process could deliver nutrients from Europa’s surface to its hidden ocean. This solves a major puzzle about how life could be sustained in that isolated sea. Dense, salty surface ice may break away and sink through the moon’s thick ice shell. This acts as a conveyor belt, supplying potential food for any organisms below. The finding provides a key hypothesis for NASA’s ongoing Europa Clipper mission to test. A breakthrough discovery about Jupiter’s moon Europa may have just solved one of the…

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