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August 2, 2021

This image shows an artist's impression of the Martian moon Ganymede. Astronomers used archive data from the Hubble Space Telescope to discover the first evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the result of thermal escape of water vapor from ice on the moon's surface. Credit: ESA/Hubble, J. daSilva

Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede

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