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Data from a NASA planetary mission have provided scientists evidence of what appears to be a body of liquid water, equal in volume to the North American Great Lakes, beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, Europa. Credit: NASA.

Extraterrestrial life: Great Lake on Jupiter's Moon Europa. Potential New Habitat for Life. Scientists Find Evidence for "Great Lake" on Europa and Potential New Habitat for Life. In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North American Great Lakes locked inside the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa. The water could represent a potential habitat for life, and many more such lakes might exist throughout the shallow regions of Europa's shell, lead author Britney Schmidt, a postdoctoral fellow at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, writes in the journal Nature. Further increasing the potential for life, the newly discovered. lake is covered by floating ice shelves that seem to be collapsing, providing a mechanism for transferring nutrients and energy between the surface and a vast ocean already inferred to exist below the thick ice shell. "One opinion in the scientific community has been, 'If the ice shell is thick, that's bad for biology — that it might mean the surface isn't communicating with the underlying ocean,' " said Schmidt. "Now we see evidence that even though the ice shell is thick, it can mix vigorously. That could make Europa and its ocean more habitable." The scientists focused on Galileo spacecraft images of two roughly circular, bumpy features on Europa's surface called chaos terrains... Read the full story » http://goodnews.ws/blog/2011/11/17/28076/

'Great Lake' on Jupiter's Moon Europa WWW.GOODNEWS.WS

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  • Extra "O" Measures Nice Video

  • @chazchazfbi not always, and they cant confirm for sure that there is water its just what they can see for now

  • Wow first to comment )) , just watched this on the news .... Chances of finding life in europa is possible .... There has to be something moving in that water ....

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