"Europa's Oxygen Production Could Sustain 1M Humans: NASA"

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"Europa's Oxygen Production Could Sustain 1M Humans: NASA"
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NASA's Juno mission has found that Jupiter's moon Europa produces 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours, enough to support a million people for a day, but much less than previously thought. This new data may narrow the odds of Europa supporting life in its vast underground ocean, with ongoing missions like Clipper aiming to determine its habitability. The oxygen production on Europa is a result of Jupiter's radiation interacting with frozen water ice on the moon's surface, but it's still unclear how much of it reaches the underground ocean.

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