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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
I think there is a high probability of finding some form of life on one or more of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn but nothing that relates to the seti project. Except that when we verify that earth is not the only planet in the universe where life has evolved we can be sure that somewhere other intelligent beings are asking the same questions. It will really be a cruel trick if we do establish that other beings like us exist but that the means of interstellar travel only exist at sublight speeds. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Bob, I think that that's what may eventually come to pass |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such "outbursts," which can send material hundreds of miles above the surface, might be much more common than they thought. http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/08/suns-corona-puzzle/ |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
"How The Universe Works" Next Wednesday, Saturn :) Check your local programming. Great Show!! Yes, some alien life is there, on Titan. Aliens Could Live Like This: Life Found in Oily Goo Tiny habitats hidden within oil could expand the potential for life in the universe, researchers say. Scientists have discovered microbes living in microscopic droplets of water inside a giant asphalt lake on Earth, suggesting that alien life could exist within ponds of sludge on distant landscapes such as Saturn's largest moon Titan. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/aliens-could-live-life-found-oily-goo-n175531 |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
"How The Universe Works" Next Wednesday, Saturn :) Check your local programming. Thanks Lynn :) Going to start working on a means of communicating with my pond's slime... in case it proves useful one day! :) |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Good 1 anniet sounds like a good idea |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Mars is right next door. We have sent numerous probes. Let's find out if life ever existed there or still does exist. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
*sigh* okay... but I warn you... it's not going well with the slime... and I really had no success with my pet rock when I was little... must've bored it rigid, it certainly did me... but if there IS life on Mars I WILL chat with it :) |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions. Images and link |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea Nice find Lynn :) Very interesting! Thank you :) |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Maybe it's a methane iceberg. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11408 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
And maybe it's not. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
And maybe it's not. Well... that's me dashed on the rocks... unless... Maybe it's monitoring what that weird thing that keeps doing a flyby is up to... :))) |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
We need to go to Titan and find out, what's there. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
We need to go to Titan and find out, what's there. We did have the Huygens there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft) rOZZ Music Pictures |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Image from Titan from Huygens I know about Huygens, just a shame we can't get a manned mission there. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Another Saturn Moon.. Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean A new study focused on the interior of Saturn's icy moon Mimas suggests its cratered surface hides one of two intriguing possibilities: Either the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the satellite contains a liquid water ocean. Researchers used numerous images of Mimas taken by NASA's Cassini mission to determine how much the moon wobbles as it orbits Saturn. They then evaluated several possible models for how its interior might be arranged, finding two possibilities that fit their data.The study is published in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal Science. http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/saturn-moon-may-hide-a-fossil-core-or-an-ocean/index.html |
Larry Monske Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 281 Credit: 554,328 RAC: 0 |
If you are looking for microscopic life you look in clay. The clay they found on mars had no microscopic fossilized microbes. On earth you can find fossil life anywhere limestone is fossil corals. Mars im afraid unless they find life many miles deep on mars anything in more shallow depths is now frozen and fossilized in place. Mars is very dead. If this ocean on Europa could be a place to look, follow the water these few moons are all there is for liquid water other than earth. Saturn is like a solar system in miniture and teaches us to look at moons of gas giants. There are several earth sized moons around Saturn and most of its moons are asteroids or comets. A fine example Hyperon one of the premevial ice comets looks like a sponge has carbonious dust on its surface. This is what earths water came from these icy comets. In the late bombarmnet time many of these comets were thick in the inner solar system. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34060 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
There's a large ocean that covers the whole of Europa, right beneath its thick crust. Plans have been made by scientists to investigate that odd moon, because there could be a swarm of underwater life under that thick icy crust. The lacking of funds refrains from doing so. It's the only place, we know, in our solar system that could hold real biological alien life! rOZZ Music Pictures |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Also on this moon, the tidal forces that stretch and deform Europa caused by Jupiter create lots of heat which may mean that there is a liquid ocean. let's hope that it is a water ocean. I think that the ice layer can be up to 2 miles thick. |
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