So far, however, researchers have not seen the same
signs near the moon's north pole.
Not exact matches
After finding
signs that Jupiter's icy
moon emits repeating plumes of water
near its southern pole, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope hope to detect more evidence of the geysers.
In 1994 he had helped set off the search for ice on the
moon by running a jury - rigged radar experiment on the Clementine spacecraft that, by his interpretation published in Science, showed
signs of ice buried
near the
moon's south pole.
But in December 2012, when the ice
moon was at its farthest point from the gas giant, they caught a pair of plumes bearing clear
signs of oxygen and hydrogen — the components of water vapor — shooting from
near the southern pole.