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Europa the old world's continent, as is known by 600 millions of spanish speaking people in the planet (obviously)

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Not just Spanish, just about every other European language except English.

And French. Also, it's εὐρώπη in Greek so Europe is the logical transliteration.

I find it weird that the moon is called Europa in English however. French uses Europe for both.

The moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter, which has always been "Europa" in English.

> The moon is named for the mythological consort of Jupiter

The continent too yet their spellings differ. That is the weird part.

On an English-language forum, the context is pretty obvious.

Coming from Belgium and speaking English a lot.

Obviously, no

In the English language, Europe is the name of the continent, and Europa is the name of the moon orbiting Jupiter - in fact, its the first google response that comes up on English-language versions of it.

Lol, translate Europe from English to Dutch ( my mother tongue)

I have an edge case for 15 million people in Europe ;)

I think most people already know that Earth has water vapour :P

After the last month of non-stop pouring rains in Europa?, no water vapour at sight. All is cold impacts targetting the nape.

I guess I wouldn't expect to read an article about scientists discovering water vapor in Europe. Water vapor on Europa however is momentous and I can only wonder if we might be closer to finding extraterrestrial life somewhere in our solar system.

I read it as europe. My first thought was "and this is somehow bad for climate or what ?" and went to read the article.

Still, the headline would be correct. They are water vapors in your Europe too

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