New study of Jupiter's moon: Europa's underwater volcanoes do not provide its ocean with hydrogen and trace elements

American planetary scientists have revised the existing hypothesis about the presence of active underwater volcanoes on Europa, a satellite of Jupiter, expressing doubts about their reality. For a long time, researchers believed that these volcanoes were the key source of hydrogen and trace elements, without which life in the satellite’s subglacial ocean would be impossible. However, the results of a new study show that geological stress in the …