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Life on Europa could exist clustered around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, or below the ocean floor, where endoliths are known to inhabit on Earth. Alternatively, it could exist clinging to the lower surface of Europa's ice layer, much like algae and bacteria in Earth's polar regions, or float freely in Europa's ocean. [ 188 ]
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.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected carbon, a building block of life, on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. ... on the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
The tantalizing potential for life. Europa Clipper isn’t designed to search for evidence of life on Europa, but it will use an array of instruments to see whether life could be possible within ...
The NASA mission, called Europa Clipper, aims to figure out whether the Jupiter moon and its ocean could support life. It's the largest interplanetary spacecraft NASA has ever built. The probe is ...
Natural satellites that host life are common in (science-fictional) written works, films, television shows, video games, and other popular media. factual satellite, fictional life Europa, Callisto, Ganymede, Io and Titan in "Cowboy Bebop" (1998) The Moon in A Trip to the Moon (1903) and many other films; Europa in Europa Report (2013) and ...
We're just looking for the conditions for life," Buratti added. Europa Clipper is the biggest spacecraft NASA has ever built for a planetary mission, measuring about 100 feet (30.5 meters) long ...
What type of life might Europa harbor? Besides water, organic compounds are needed for life as we know it, plus an energy source. In Europa’s case that could be thermal vents on the ocean floor. Deputy project scientist Bonnie Buratti imagines any life would be primitive like the bacterial life that originated in Earth’s deep ocean vents.