New research from the United States space agency, NASA,suggests that the ocean under the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa may have been able to support life.Researchers found that the ocean could have been formed when some minerals broke down and released water.Europa is a little smaller than Earth's moon, but still one of the largest moons in our solar system.Observations of Europa by NASA spacecraft have shown that an ocean exists there beneath a thick layer of ice.Scientists estimate Europa's ocean to be 65 to 160 kilometers deep.It may contain twice the water of Earth's oceans.The new findings came from ocean models of Europa created by NASA.The results were reported in a study presented at a recent conference of Goldschmidt, a geoscience research organization.Mohit Melwani Daswani is a planetary scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. He led the study.
