Europa

As I haven't blogged in a little while and getting nagged about it! (No names here...stew) I thought I better getting my blogging head on again ;]


Today I'm going to discuss Europa.
Though I'm shitting tired so don't expect anything to great! (stew..)
But I will edit this in the future to make it sound better.


RIGHT... Let's get going...

Europa is the sixth moon of planet Jupiter. (I beilieve there are 8?) But someone can correct me on that. x]

Europa was one of the four moons to be first discovered by Galileo Galilei, so these moons are otherwise known as the Galilean moons.

Europa is the smallest out of the four Galilean moons, though 6th largest in the solar system. So fairly sizeable. ;]


Europa is primarily made out of silicate rock and is likely to have an iron core. It's atmosphere is composed mainly of oxygen with its surface made of ice. Underneath the icey surface is said to be a watery ocean.

NOW, we first evolved from micro-organisms in water, and any life is said to be able to form when water is present, so just think what a whole ocean may hold...

That's right - Lots of extraterrestrial life.

Europa is said to be a lot like Lake Vostok in the Antartic.
I came across this on my reasearch and also found this veryy fascinating.

Lake Vostok has an icey barrier with very deep water below that is strongly believed to hold life beneath it.
So we may have different forms of sea creatures in the Antartic, but it's not a safe place for scientists as the oxygen levels are 50 times higher than our own, and our lungs wouldn't be able to cope with this mass.
But over time, it's said creatures could have adapted to this harsh environment, but this would mean the life forms would be different to what we know of.

Which is what Europa is said to hold, as the oxygen levels are higher like Lake Vostok. But Europa has been around manyyyyy many years longer than Lake Vostok has. So if we find evidence that there is infact life in Lake Vostok (which it's almost certain there will be), this will provide very strong evidence to support life developing on Europa.

And if there is life on Europa...It will be massively evolved. Into all kinds of unknown creatures.

Scientists are still trying to find out as much as they can about both places, as who knows what's held beneathe those icey exteriors.
Also, it's said that sunlight is needed to survive and produce life...This isn't true. In the 1970's scientists found during a deep-sea dive exploration that colonies of giant tube worms, clams, crustaceans, mussels and other assorted creatures clustered around undersea volcanic features.
Providing evidence that life doesn't need sunlight to develop and survive.

Which reminds me of a quote from Jurassic Park - 'Life will always find a way'.
Which I strongly agree with.

They are wanting to send a probe to study Europa, but apparently there is a lack of funding from the government (scaredycatcunts.........sorry) so they haven't been able to do so just yet.
BUT it will happen.
And I can't wait til it does.




Rightio...
That is my blog for today.
I hope you enjoyed. ;]

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