Posted on 09/26/2016 12:17:16 PM PDT by C19fan
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes.
The observation increases the possibility that missions to Europa may be able to sample Europa’s ocean without having to drill through miles of ice.
“Europa’s ocean is considered to be one of the most promising places that could potentially harbor life in the solar system,” said Geoff Yoder, acting associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “These plumes, if they do indeed exist, may provide another way to sample Europa’s subsurface.”
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ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
beat me to it.
It would be truly ironic that with the SETI project, and all the searches for habitable extrasolar planets, life turned up in our solar system at Europa. And, it would make Arthur Clarke a true prophet.
So a moon farts and these guys go ape sh*t?
Europa is considered one of the prime candidates to find life so this makes the job of sampling the water for life much easier.
6 hundred million years old and still spouting water? It seems the scarecrow runs the science department in nasa.
“If I only had a brain....”
With the surface temp in the balmy minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, tell me what ‘life’ would be there?
-260 at the surface but there is temperate liquid water under miles of ice.
THIS was their big announcement??
I guess so although to be fair to NASA it was the blogsphere that started speculation it was something to do with aliens making it viral.
John Belushi knew this in 1983 when, in “Animal House” he said “A Zit!”
Europa has zits. It must be a young moon. Give it a couple hundred million years and it will all clear up, or send it a giant tube of Clearisil. Apply carefully and come back in a 1,000 years.
When the Monolith starts shooting water geysers, I’ll start paying attention. lol
The more the worlds elite cosmologists and astrophysicists make fundamental discoveries and breakthroughs the more astonished they become at the elegance of the complexity and underlying simplicity of the universe.
Their closed minds are yearning for answers other than the naked truth that there is a CREATOR and our existence is so very special.
Let’s pack up and get there we may need that water. Actually, we really don’t need any more water.
That’s because all the water that ever was on earth, is still on earth. Except of course, any water that was shipped to the space shuttle. The biggest myth perpetuated by environmental zealots is that earth is running out of water. That simply isn’t case. We have all the water we need, and all the water we’ll ever need right here on earth.
Amen and well said! It never ceases to amaze me how these brainiacs can call the smallest microbe 'life' yet deny the same to an unborn child.
They reside near the core of the planet. You just haven’t watched enough B Sci-fi movies or you’d know these things.
I thought we already sent Cassini through the plumes?
Or was that Titan?
That was a probe that landed on Titan.
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