An Ocean Moon Thought to Be Habitable May Be Oxygen-Starved
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A new study suggests that the amount of the element on the moon of Jupiter is on the lower end of previous estimates.
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    “It’s on the lower end of what we would expect,” said Jamey Szalay, a plasma physicist at Princeton University who led the study. But “it’s not totally prohibitive” for habitability, he added. … “We don’t really know how much oxygen you need to make life,” she said. “So the fact that it’s lower than some earlier, wishful-thinking estimates is not such a problem.”