Thursday, December 1, 2011

new water pockets found on jupiter's moon, europa


Europa’s frozen crust might be carved into something resembling Swiss cheese, with enormous cavities of liquid water tucked into the rock-hard ice.

Although the lakes are buried on Jupiter's moon, Europa, scientists have discovered water pockets and are now finding out that life may thrive on this moon. Lurking a few KM below a region called 'Thera Macula', a water pocket contains at least as much water as the U.S Great Lakes. This odd surface has puzzled scientists for over a decade, and now they discover that life may thrive on Europa.

Impact- this may impact us because one day, when the Earth gets overpopulated and over trashed (Like on Wall-e), we can move to Jupiter's moon and have water supplies.

Critique- I think that this is really cool. It makes me think, well what if other planets moons actually have life on it and there's more species out there that we don't know about. But anyway, I think that this is really cool.


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