The vast salty ocean inside Jupiter's moon Europa 'contains all the ingredients for life', suggesting that aliens could be living below its icy crust, a study has found. Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California made computer simulations of the geochemical reservoirs that lie below Europa's icy shell. The vast salty ocean inside Jupiter's moon Europa 'contains all the ingredients for life', suggesting that aliens could be living below its icy crust, a study has foundThe team developed their model using data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft and the Hubble Space Telescope, which was built by NASA and the European Space Agency. 'NASA's Europa Clipper mission will launch in the next few years, and so our work aims to prepare for the mission, which will investigate Europa's habitability.' 'Arguably, icy moons lack this ability, so this needs to be tested on any future mission to Europa.'

Source: Daily Mail June 24, 2020 22:03 UTC