Have you ever wondered if water was somewhere else other than on earth.........

1. By Charlie Carissimo EUROPA Jupiters Icy Moon

2. IT IS INCREDIBLE TO THINK…

3. … THAT THERE MIGHT BE WATER IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM BEYOND EARTH

4. AND THEREFORE THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE

5. LET’S GO MORE IN DEPTH:

6. EUROPA, JUPITERS ICY MOON

7. EUROPA IS ONE OF JUPITER’S MANY MOONS

8. IT IS SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN EARTH’S MOON

9. EUROPA’S SURFACE IS ONE OF THE SMOOTHEST AND BRIGHTEST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

10. THERE ARE VERY FEW CRATERS ON EUROPA

11. ITS SURFACE IS MADE UP OF…

13. AND IS ALSO STRIATED BY CRACKS AND STREAKS

14. THESE CRACKS AND STREAKS ARE CALLED LINEAE

15. LINEAE

16. THEY ARE PROBABLY CAUSED BY ERUPTIONS OF WARM ICE…

17. AS THE CRUST TRIED TO SPREAD TO EXPOSE WARMER LAYERS

18. BUT THE INTERESTING PART IS WHAT’S UNDERNEATH THE CRUST…

19. UNDER ITS ICY SURFACE SCIENTISTS HAVE HYPOTHESISED THAT THERE IS EITHER…

20. A LIQUID OCEAN, WHICH WOULD BE THE BIGGEST IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM

22. OR WARM CONVECTING ICE

25. IF THIS WERE TRUE THERE COULD BE LIFE IN ENVIRONMENTS SIMILAR TO THOSE NEAR EARTH’S HYDROTHERMAL VENTS

27. THE LIFE WOULD BE VERY PRIMITIVE, LIKE MICROBES

29. IT’S SOMEHOW EVEN HARDER TO IMMAGINE THAT THERE IS LIFE ON A MOON

30. THAN TO IMMAGINE LIFE ON ANOTHER PLANET

31. BUT IT’S NOT IMPOSSIBLE

32. SOURCES MICROBES: www.lausd.k12.ca.us/ Figueroa_EL / images /Mystery%20to%20Medicine/ microbes.jpg VENT: www.noc.soton.ac.uk/ chess / education / Images /Logatchev1.jpg www.wikiedia.com www.nasa.gov ICE: www.tea.armadaproject.org/ Images / porter /porter_320_word_ICE.jpg EUROPA: www.wwu.edu/ depts / skywise / planets / europa.jpg