Transient Water Vapor at Europa's South Pole

• Main Authors: Roth, Lorenz, Saur, Joachim, Retherford, Kurt D., Strobel, Darrell F., Feldman, Paul D., McGrath, Melissa A., Nimmo, Francis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE 2014
• Subjects: ddc:no; South Pole; Hubble; South pole
• Online Access: https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/44863/

In November and December 2012, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaged Europa's ultraviolet emissions in the search for vapor plume activity. We report statistically significant coincident surpluses of hydrogen Lyman-alpha and oxygen OI 130.4-nanometer emissions above the southern hemisphere in...