{"606228":{"#nid":"606228","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Old data reveal \u0027plumes\u0027 on ocean world that could host life","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe knew it was only a matter of time before news outlets this week sought out \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.eas.gatech.edu\/people\/schmidt-dr-britney\u0022\u003EBritney Schmidt\u003C\/a\u003E regarding Jupiter\u0026#39;s frosty moon Europa, a prime candidate for life thanks to its briny ocean. Schmidt, after all, co-authored a 2017 \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/2041-8213\/aa67f8\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E that looked at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/hubble\/story\/index.html\u0022\u003EHubble Space Telescope\u003C\/a\u003E images and found a second possible eruption of water from the same location on the moon\u0026#39;s surface, suggesting cryovolcanism on Europa. We figured that media outlets would want Schmidt\u0026#39;s opinion of a new \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41550-018-0450-z\u0022\u003Estudy\u003C\/a\u003E that says those water plumes were active during a 1997 fly-by of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/missions\/galileo\/\u0022\u003EGalileo\u003C\/a\u003E space probe. Schmidt is busy working on the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/europa\u0022\u003EEuropa Clipper\u003C\/a\u003E project for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\u0022\u003ENASA\u003C\/a\u003E, which plans to send an probe to orbit the moon. She\u0026#39;s also working on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/schmidt.eas.gatech.edu\/project-rise-up\/\u0022\u003EIcefin\u003C\/a\u003E, an autonomous underwater vehicle for exploring icy oceans on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2018-05-16 15:04:53","changed_gmt":"2018-05-18 15:54:59","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/05\/14\/us\/europa-plume-activity-galileo\/index.html","dateline":{"date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"588624":{"id":"588624","type":"image","title":"Britney Schmidt","body":null,"created":"1489416856","gmt_created":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","changed":"1489416856","gmt_changed":"2017-03-13 14:54:16","alt":"","file":{"fid":"224319","name":"Britney Schmidt.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":674589,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Britney%20Schmidt_0.jpg?itok=HjL2uGXw"}}},"media_ids":["588624"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"EAS"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"81291","name":"Britney Schmidt"},{"id":"81281","name":"Europa"},{"id":"5257","name":"Galileo"},{"id":"174056","name":"Hubble Space Telescope"},{"id":"178003","name":"cryovolcanism"},{"id":"178004","name":"Europa Clipper"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}