A Potential Sign of Life Has Just Been Discovered on Europa
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The James Webb Space Telescope focused on Jupiter's moon Europa and found something truly remarkable. It discovered carbon dioxide in a very specific place on the surface of the moon, hinting that something intriguing is happening inside it.
Decades of exploration of the solar system have shown that Jupiter's moon, Europa, is one of the most promising places where we can find life beyond Earth. That's because of the vast ocean the moon hides beneath its icy crust. The first evidence of the subsurface ocean came when NASA's Voyager spacecraft flew past Jupiter about half a century ago. The data from the spacecraft revealed that Europa was not just icy but had a young, frequently rejuvenated outer surface.
Further missions to study Jupiter and its moons suggested that Europa's underground ocean of liquid water contains twice the volume of all of Earth's oceans combined. However, what truly piques our interest in this moon is the possibility that it may have hosted life within its mysterious, dark waters, where organic molecules and potential energy sources might exist.
And now, the most powerful space telescope ever built has delivered its first significant results concerning the Jovian moon. So, how did Webb discover carbon dioxide on the surface of Europa? How are astronomers so sure that it came from beneath the surface of the moon? Finally, and most importantly, why is the discovery of carbon dioxide on the surface of Europa so important?
The 75th episode of the Sunday Discovery Series answers all these questions in detail.
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Created By: Rishabh Nakra
Narrated By: Jeffrey Smith
Пікірлер: 71
Europa is fascinating indeed! 😮 ❤️I always appreciate the way SOU explains things so interestingly. 👏👍❤️
Very good video, Space is always a interesting topic.
Jus think Modern man has been around for 1/4 Million years yet 90% of our Knolwledge of the Universe has come in the last 5 Decades.
@IapetusStag
6 ай бұрын
What a time to be alive.. I guess. Or not: Too late to discover places on the Earth, too early to travel the universe
@anthonyshiels9273
6 ай бұрын
A lot of the Ancient Knowledge was lost in around 270 A. D. when the Alexandria Library was burned down.
@Br3akaway
6 ай бұрын
@@IapetusStagyeah it’s kinda more of an “or not” scenario. What about if in 5 more decades the same holds true? We can’t know until that time has past, then it’s just hindsight
@dmitriylevitskiy1674
5 ай бұрын
Tell that to the people that built the piramids and Babylonians
@XTSM1
5 ай бұрын
Many of worlds great library were burnt down by invaders. Like Nalanda University library, which burnt for 3 months.
Who tf started cracking Europa on the kitchen counter like an egg 💀💀💀
Amazing 😮❤
Amazinggg!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
Excellent
As for Pluto. We did not make the mistake. They did.
PLEASE EDIT OUT THE SOUNDS OF THE NARRATOR GASPING FOR AIR BEFORE EVERY SENTENCE
I recall a whistleblower talking about NASA having Remote Viewers who remote viewed Europa and saw Octopi 😁
Why did you discontinued the Sunday episodes?
I remember all the hoopla when this was launch the back in the late 70s. It's interesting how they built upon this.
Very good video! Sounds promising of life being there
@laxman5660
5 ай бұрын
Omshanti thank God bless
Amazing that even so outside the habitable zone , you can expect such place for signs of life
@jasonsitz3056
5 ай бұрын
Life, a orgasm feels good cuz it's the giving of life. It finds a way...
Thank you for all the commercials. I wonder coudn't you put in more?!
"I dream of being an astronaut that discovers an alien craft. They are out there. Great story."
You removed Pluto from your list of planets. It’s still on our list.
OOOhh green house gases and moon warming! lol
Just imagine if we sent special equipment with a space x rocket falcon 9 🤤
Interesting.
Since moon is Luna would lifeforms on the moon be called lunatics? 🤔
Realy I like this video
Yeah, You can move there... 🕳️👾💨😱
Ya
I thought the JUICE Mission was going to do what Clipper is planned to do, or have I missed something?🤔🧐😳
@olivergrumitt2601
5 ай бұрын
Juice will mostly fly past the moons Ganymede and Callisto and will orbit Ganymede. It will fly past Europe only twice. Europa Clipper is a mission designed especially to study Europa and will fly past the moon at least 44 times and probably more than that.
Or it could just be volcanic...There is no question that very large volcanic eruptions can inject significant amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens vented approximately 10 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in only 9 hours.
We better help Europa cut down on CO2...nett zero to stop plants growing there😂😂
The word is temperature not tempachur. 4 syllables.
Imagine if Europa is a natural dysons sphere or habitat( i realise dysons sphere is the wrong termanology as it harnesses the power of the star) and life and posible intelligent life is thriving under there.
@kittybuckley3
2 ай бұрын
The sort of life that can eat and sleep and reproduce so basically higher life forms compared to us😂😂😂😂
A planet full of food ?
If they're so interested in it, why doesn't it already have its own dedicated probe?
@pigbenis8366
6 ай бұрын
It does. The Europa clipper mission. Planned launch in October 2024.
@mospeada1152
6 ай бұрын
@@pigbenis8366 No, it's yet to be sent. I'm talking about that one should already be there!
Ignorance persists because humans live in mythology.
Why are we trying to to go there instead of mars bro
Ooooo
let get big pipe to Europa ocean to get new fresh water to earth 😂
🌟🌟🌟
typically grandiose choice of title "potential sign of life"-- bullish.... CO2 is not even a very strong biosignature on its own. It's obviously true that Europa may harbour life etc but to bill this one spectral finding as potential sign of life-- ludicrous
We are going to die
@Dextronaut1
6 ай бұрын
Really? I thought humans were immortal this whole time!!
@patriciatowns5930
6 ай бұрын
true
@patriciatowns5930
6 ай бұрын
true
False but I appreciate your positive attitude. What a time to be alive.
Imagine if Arthur C. Clarke was right after all....
Life only exists on planets god places it.
ok, Ice 10km thick. Ocean 100km deep .. The deepest place on earth is at the bottom of the mariane trench and is 11km deep. It need a serious load of robotic engineering to reach and collect data. Now let's just reach the bottom of vostok lake under 3km of antartica ice, with a remote control robotic device and once this is done, let's start dreaming.
NASA has been unable to send man back to moon since 1970s they dont have started working on any Misson to land man on mars till now mankind has been unable to dig hole and reach to mantle of the earth till now and you are talking about Europa and its deep ocean flyby mission is easy for any agency, send a robotic mission and land it on Europa and make it capable to dig into ice sheet 20 km deep so that it can reach to this so called ocean. Then we will see whether there is life or not😂
Life or life form...? 🤦🏼♂️
@kittybuckley3
2 ай бұрын
Algea....or...or tartigrades
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