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EPSS Professor Margaret Kivelson describes new evidence for Europa plume

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Emeritus Professor Margaret Kivelson was quoted in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN about her team's results published today in Nature Astronomy.  The team provides strong evidence for the existence of a plume at Jupiter's icy moon Europa based in part on re-analysis of Galileo magnetometer data obtained in 1997.

A Synopsis is available to read at the UCLA Newsroom

Posted on May 14, 2018