Mexico City (MiMorelia.com).- The National Administration of Aeronautics and Space (NASA, for its acronym in English), is getting ready to take the next Monday a relevant information about Europe, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter.
it Is a discovery of the Hubble Space Telescope, with new images, which would show a "startling evidence of activity that could be related to the presence of an ocean under Europa’s surface", according to advanced the u.s. space agency.
Europe, the moon’s icy giant planets of our Solar System, caught the interest astronomical, because it would have at its surface an ocean of liquid water, and salt, which are essential components to develop life. However, some scientists think that there can’t be conditions without a hydrothermal activity, because that would prevent the emergence of microorganisms that feed of the energy and the substances released from the bowels of the satellite.
however, NASA believes that there are conditions to harbor life, and even without that hydrothermal activity volcanic would produce hydrogen and oxygen.
Life under the moons of Saturn
on Monday, when a press conference will appear the mystery, but finding the possibility of life in various parts of the universe is latent. For example, in another of the gas planets: Saturn, the Cassini Spacecraft has shown striking images.
Precisely the Cassini already has his death announced within a year, in September 2017, because it will be virtually swallowed up by that planet on the approach to its atmosphere, in a maneuver planned by astronomers.
Such a probe NASA began its research on Saturn since 2004, and among its findings is that two of its 62 moons -Titan and Enceladus – are good conditions for accommodating human life.
Enceladus measures 500 kilometers and is covered by a crust of ice about 40 km thick, where it hides a global ocean of water, resting on a rocky core and an equal organic compounds, indispensable for the emergence of life.
About Titan, the largest moon saturnina, is the only place in our Solar System, besides Earth, where there is a thick atmosphere rich in nitrogen -an important part of the molecules of life – and abundant reserves of liquid on the surface.
But also in the atmosphere there are lakes and oceans of methane and air accumulate significant amounts of methane gas, the sun degrades quickly, and something seems to be producing it in sufficient quantity to replace it, either the existence criovolcanes or living beings capable of producing it. Still much study to this satellite cold -180 Degrees Celsius below zero-but your life would be very different to the us.
Also on Mars and exoplanets
Mars is the planet most studied, for a trip manned in search of to settle here, a project that could become a reality in about three decades. The images show it as a dry desert and ice cream, where in the basement there is ice and sometimes liquid water on the surface. Should explore conditions for the production of food harvested and other conditions to breathe without difficulties, among others.
however, the universe is infinite and there are discoveries to be relevant. A month ago, scientists announced the existence of an extra-solar planet "potentially habitable", similar to the Earth, baptized as the Next b, in the orbit of the Star proxima Centauri -the closest to the Solar System-a little more than four light-years away.
Has at least 1.3 times the mass of earth, revolves around proxima Centauri every 11.2 days at a distance of close to 7 million kilometers, just 5 percent of the distance between the Sun and the Earth, but as his star is weaker than the our, is of the "habitable zone", with a surface temperature that would allow the presence of liquid water.
As there are a lot of research, because the intense flares of X-Rays and ultraviolet radiation from your sun will damage the conditions on its surface. In addition to other issues, such as the distance to reach there from Earth.
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