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  2. Planetary habitability in the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Planetary habitability in the Solar System is the study that searches the possible existence of past or present extraterrestrial life in those celestial bodies. As exoplanets are too far away and can only be studied by indirect means, the celestial bodies in the Solar System allow for a much more detailed study: direct telescope observation, space probes, rovers and even human spaceflight.

  3. NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter's moon Europa can ...

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    NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter's moon Europa, considered one of our solar system's most promising spots to search for life beyond Earth, to learn whether this ice-encased world ...

  4. Habitability of natural satellites - Wikipedia

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    Jupiter: Callisto – potential habitability: Thought to have a subsurface ocean heated by tidal forces. [41] [42] Ganymede: Jupiter: Ganymede – Subsurface oceans: Thought to have a magnetic field, with ice and subterranean oceans stacked up in several layers, with salty water as a second layer on top of the rocky iron core. [43] [44] Io: Jupiter

  5. Planetary habitability - Wikipedia

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    Understanding planetary habitability is partly an extrapolation of the conditions on Earth, as this is the only planet known to support life.. Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural satellite's potential to develop and maintain an environment hospitable to life. [1]

  6. Spacecraft blasts into space in hunt for life on Jupiter’s moon

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    Nasa’s Europa Clipper will now travel 1.8 billion miles, before finally arriving at the biggest planet in the solar system in April 2030.

  7. “Hugely Significant”: Nasa Launches Spacecraft To Jupiter ...

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    At 16:06 GMT, NASA launched the Europa Clipper ship from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to search for signs of life on one of Jupiter’s frozen moons. “Discovering life on other celestial bodies ...

  8. Rare Earth hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Rare Earth argues that complex life cannot exist on large gaseous planets like Jupiter and Saturn (top row) or Uranus and Neptune (top middle) or smaller planets such as Mars and Mercury. The Rare Earth hypothesis argues that life requires terrestrial planets like Earth, and since gas giants lack such a surface, that complex life cannot arise ...

  9. Jupiter Juice launch: Everything to know about mission to see ...

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    The name stands for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer and that is exactly what it will do. Jupiter Juice launch: Everything to know about mission to see whether solar system could support alien life Skip ...