…scientists were able to directly detect and analyze spectral features of non-water-ice materials on Ganymede’s surface. Some of these non-water-ice materials include hydrated sodium chloride, ammonium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and possibly even aliphatic aldehyde.
It’s less that they don’t want to say, and more that this is more or less meaningless to anyone who isn’t a chemist
Pretty deep in the article, I found the passage
It’s less that they don’t want to say, and more that this is more or less meaningless to anyone who isn’t a chemist