When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts. The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Now, scientists are trying to …
NEW YORK — When an undersea volcano erupted in Tonga in January, its watery blast was huge and unusual — and scientists are still trying to understand its impacts. The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Now, scientists …
A satellite view of the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano on Jan. 15. The volcano, known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. Now scientists are trying to figure out how all that water could affect the atmosphere, …
Using new and archival datasets from Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists and astronomers have for the first time uncovered evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede. “The team's analysis combined the data from two instruments: Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in 2018 and archival images from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph from 1998 to 2010,” the …