New Findings from Jupiter’s Moon Europa

Europa

NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.

Astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa. Participants in the teleconference will be:

  •      Paul Hertz, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington
  •      William Sparks, astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore
  •      Britney Schmidt, assistant professor at the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at        Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta
  •      Jennifer Wiseman, senior Hubble project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center        in Greenbelt, Maryland

To participate by phone, media must contact Dwayne Brown at 202-358-1726 or [email protected] and provide their media affiliation no later than noon Monday.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live on NASA’s website at: http://www.nasa.gov/live