europa jupiters icy moon
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Have you ever wondered if water was somewhere else other than on earth.........TRANSCRIPT
By Charlie Carissimo
EUROPAJupiters Icy Moon
IT IS INCREDIBLE TO THINK…
…THAT THERE MIGHT BE WATER
IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM BEYOND
EARTH
AND THEREFORE THE POSSIBILITY OF
LIFE
LET’S GO MORE IN DEPTH:
EUROPA,
JUPITERS ICY MOON
EUROPA IS ONE OF JUPITER’S MANY
MOONS
IT IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN EARTH’S MOON
EUROPA’S SURFACE IS ONE OF THE
SMOOTHEST AND BRIGHTEST IN THE
SOLAR SYSTEM
THERE ARE VERY FEW CRATERS ON
EUROPA
ITS SURFACE IS MADE UP OF…
AND IS ALSO STRIATED BY CRACKS AND
STREAKS
THESE CRACKS AND STREAKS ARE
CALLED LINEAE
LINEAE
THEY ARE PROBABLY CAUSED BY
ERUPTIONS OF WARM ICE…
AS THE CRUST TRIED TO SPREAD TO
EXPOSE WARMER LAYERS
BUT THE INTERESTING PART
IS WHAT’S UNDERNEATH THE
CRUST…
UNDER ITS ICY SURFACE
SCIENTISTS HAVE HYPOTHESISED THAT THERE IS
EITHER…
A LIQUID OCEAN,
WHICH WOULD BE
THE BIGGEST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
OR WARM CONVECTING ICE
IF THIS WERE TRUE THERE COULD BE LIFE
IN ENVIRONMENTS SIMILAR TO THOSE
NEAR EARTH’S HYDROTHERMAL VENTS
THE LIFE WOULD BE VERY PRIMITIVE, LIKE MICROBES
IT’S SOMEHOW EVEN HARDER TO
IMMAGINE THAT THERE IS LIFE ON A
MOON
THAN TO IMMAGINE LIFE ON ANOTHER
PLANET
BUT IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE
SOURCES
MICROBES:www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Figueroa_EL/images/Mystery%20to%20Medicine/microbes.jpg
VENT:www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/education/Images/Logatchev1.jpg
www.wikiedia.com
www.nasa.gov
ICE:www.tea.armadaproject.org/Images/porter/porter_320_word_ICE.jpg
EUROPA: www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/planets/europa.jpg