Life on Europa
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Transcript: What exists under the ice pack on Europa in its liquid oceans? Nobody knows for sure. In his novel 2010 Arthur C. Clark speculated about the possibility of primitive life forms in Europa’s oceans. Scientists do not know if this is possible, but Earth's history is intriguing because on Earth life has evolved in a range of inhospitable environments, including extremely dry and cold situations in the Antarctic ice pack. We may know for sure when in the next decade a fleet of probes head towards Jupiter. One plan is for a probe to land on the ice pack, melt its way thought the surface, and then travel as a bathysphere looking for primitive life forms. Europa is still one of the few possible potential sites for life in the solar system beyond Earth.
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