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Life on Enceladus? Hydrothermal activity confirmed.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 2:50 pm
Posted on 4/13/17 at 2:50 pm
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Some day in the future we will inevitably get there and drill our way down and satisfy our curiosity of the possibility of life in our solar system. Microbes could indeed be alive and well on the sea floor.
Some day in the future we will inevitably get there and drill our way down and satisfy our curiosity of the possibility of life in our solar system. Microbes could indeed be alive and well on the sea floor.
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Posted on 4/13/17 at 3:03 pm to Commander Data
Posted on 4/13/17 at 5:13 pm to Commander Data
Enceladus is about the size of Texas. I doubt that it has all of the ingredients for life.
I wish NASA and ESA would focus on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn's Titan. They're much bigger and have far more water than Enceladus.
Size of earth and moon compared to Jupiter's moons.
Size of earth and moon compared to Titan.
I wish NASA and ESA would focus on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn's Titan. They're much bigger and have far more water than Enceladus.
Size of earth and moon compared to Jupiter's moons.
Size of earth and moon compared to Titan.
Posted on 4/13/17 at 5:26 pm to Kentucker
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I doubt that it has all of the ingredients for life.
Well according to the Far Side…..
Posted on 4/13/17 at 5:30 pm to Kentucker
Didn't realize it was that small. I have doubts about life being anywhere else in the Sol system but it's worth the effort to find out. I have always been interested in Titan. I don't know how much water is supposed to be there. Are there water lakes or underground? It's the moon with methane and methane and ammonia atmosphere right?
Posted on 4/13/17 at 9:25 pm to Commander Data
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I have doubts about life being anywhere else in the Sol system but it's worth the effort to find out.
I feel confident that we'll discover life elsewhere in the solar system. There's just too much water on some of the moons and energy from the gas giant planets on their moons is adequate to stimulate the chemical chain reactions that lead to life processes.
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I have always been interested in Titan. I don't know how much water is supposed to be there. Are there water lakes or underground? It's the moon with methane and methane and ammonia atmosphere right?
There is far more water on Titan than on earth. The problem is that Titan is incredibly cold and water there is rock-hard ice. The surface temps average -290°F (-180°C). The lakes and rain are liquid ethane and methane.
At that temp, it's unlikely that the chemical processes that lead to life, at least as we know it, are happening. There may be subsurface conditions that are more favorable to life, but that hasn't been explored in depth.
On Europa, however, it has. That moon, too, has a lot more water than earth and we know that it has a deep liquid-water ocean. I think we should be looking there first for life.
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