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This first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter found evidence of a subsurface ocean on Europa.

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The Galileo spacecraft became the first to orbit Jupiter and found evidence of a subsurface ocean on the moon Europa. Source: Galileo (spacecraft) ↗

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