![]() ![]() If you've got the ingredients, it's there," he added. "Because wherever we look in Earth's oceans, for the past 200 years, when we've said, 'this is a barren desert life doesn't exist.' It's always there. And, oceanographers tell him: "'Curt, if it's got all this stuff, the life's there, trust us." Niebur added Europa is the "most likely place" humans might find conditions that could support life beyond Earth. It is Jupiters third biggest moon with a diameter of 3642 km, being slightly bigger than Earth s moon. It is the fourth-largest moon, has the highest density of all the moons. ![]() Credits: Johns Hopkins APL/University of Arizona/Mike Yakovlev. "If we find bacteria on Europa, or Mars or elsewhere, there's likely going to be intelligent life somewhere in the vast universe," he added.Įuropa is not the only one of Jupiter's moons with the potential to harbor alien life, with Enceladus and Callisto also of interest to scientists.īut Dr. Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter. The proposed Io Volcano Observer (IVO) mission would aim to understand how tidal heat is generated, lost and drives the evolution of Jupiter’s moon Io all critical clues to the formation of worlds across the cosmos. Curt Niebur, lead scientist for Outer Planet Science in NASA's Planetary Science Division, told Newsweek the probe's mission is to help answer: "Does Europa have all the conditions all the ingredients such that it could be habitable, that life could exist?'" NASA is intrigued enough to send an unmanned spacecraft to Europa in October 2024.ĭr. Europa, Moon of Jupiter CORBIS/Getty ImagesĮuropa is a frozen, icy world world but many scientists are confident that below the frozen surface lies a salt-water ocean and a rocky seafloor. ![]()
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