Europa's water plume-like shooting into space excites scientists but looking for life forms not a priority
The Earth is the only planet to provide living things air and water. If Jupiter's moon will be sharing its part of the pie, then scientists are in for their favorite past time, exploration. Many would like to believe that there is life outside the earth, but the question lays on how long will that life last by using up its resources?
The NASA has announced a discovery of Jupiter's moon Europa, to shoot in water vapor thus, making it easy for scientists in exploring the icy crust of Europa.It has been discovered in a study that it has more oxygen than hydrogen which is beneficial for living things. It also has tectonic plates similar to earth which is a stabilizing ground for infrastructures that scientists might want to build in the future. This and all other missions have been already planned by NASA from way back 1979 by Voyager spacecraft wherein it shows the similarities of ice cracks just like on earth.
NASA has been interested in exploring Europa and is planning to send a spacecraft to seal the deal on 2020. The mission, to dig deeper beneath its radiations and icy crust, and to discover what Paul Hertz, a NASA Astrophysicist, believed to be "a global saline liquid water ocean, hidden under miles of ice". Other scientists of NASA like lead researcher William Sparks also have no hopes for living forms in Europa. Recently It will be handy though for them to get samples from water vapor shooting from water plume-like instead of drilling on hard ice.
The icy crust of Europa will no longer be a hindrance or a mystery as NASA scientists discover this only last Monday, Sept 26, 2016. This discovery may have unraveled an ocean-wrapped Europa that is more interesting as finding life forms there. In recent interviews from Space.com, it is one "promising place" for associate administrator Geoff Yoder for NASA, and if this prevails, then they are faced with a huge body of water twice as much as the Earth.
Their quest in tagging Europa as 'Habitable' runs to finding chemicals, minerals, which Hertz finds it easy now because of modern technologies.
