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Table Salt compound spotted on Europa

Tara Regio is the yellowish area to left of center, in this NASA Galileo image of Europa’s surface. This region of geologic chaos is the area researchers identified an abundance of sodium chloride.
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Finding prompts a rethinking of the icy moon’s subsurface ocean. Researchers have discovered that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa is actually sodium chloride.

A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa...

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