Ingredients for Life? | Why Europa? – NASA's Europa Clipper
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purely by chemical reactions fuel for life in an ocean below the surface. radiation splits apart water molecules (H2O, made of oxygen and hydrogen) in Europa's extremely tenuous atmosphere hydrogen floats away and much of the oxygen stays behind and may bind to other element potentially be used in c
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- purely by chemical reactions
- fuel for life in an ocean below the surface.
- radiation splits apart water molecules (H2O, made of oxygen and hydrogen) in Europa's extremely tenuous atmosphere
- hydrogen floats away and much of the oxygen stays behind and may bind to other element
- potentially be used in chemical reactions that release energy
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