Jupiter’s icy moon might have alien LIFE hidden inside hidden ‘water pools’, scientists reveal
Saturn's icy moon Enceladus releases plumes of vapor – and scientists hope grains of ice could carry evidence of alien lifeJupiter's moon Europa could be hiding alien life, and Nasa already has plans to probe it more closely than ever beforeScientists have long hoped that some form of alien life could be lurking on icy moons in our Solar System like Saturn's Enceladus or Jupiter's Europa.
“Our results give us more confidence that using upcoming instruments, we will be able to detect lifeforms similar to those on Earth," continued Klenner, the lead author and postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space sciences.And it will carry extra instruments to analyze the moon in greater detail than ever before.
Its Surface Dust Analyzer should be able to detect cellular material even in a single ice grain out of hundreds of thousands.Scientists have tested their tools on a bacteria called Sphingopyxis alaskensis, which lives in waters off Alaska."They are extremely small, so they are in theory capable of fitting into ice grains that are emitted from an ocean world like Enceladus or Europa," Klenner explained.
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