Europaen Lifeform #15938 By Dazenza Watch

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Europa is a small moon relative to the big gas giant known as Jupiter. While Jupiter's harsh storms may be inhospitable for life as we know it, Europa is possibly, and most probably, our best chance at finding life.



Europa is covered with kilometer thick ice that is constantly moving, cracking, and shifting. Out of the cracks shoot geysers of pure water. Upon further research, it appears that not only does Europa contain water, but a vast ocean that holds twice the amount of salt water at Earth contains. The moon constantly orbits around Jupiter every two days, and it's immense gravitational pull creates heat. And where there's friction, there's vents to expel magma from it's core. And where there's thermal vents, there is life.



Although the solar radiation makes the surface of the ice too deadly, the bottom of the ice is able to receive just enough sunlight to fuel things that photosynthesize from it. Anything far below the ice is a dark murky abyss that resembles what the conditions of deep sea life on Earth are like. The life forms that live in zones like this have very poor eyesight and live by using other senses.



Water, sunlight, heat, and plenty of chemicals all provide the steps to contain a thriving ecosystem. In the following decades, we would be but a few kilometers away from discovering that we are not alone in the universe, and that life thrives and swims within our own neighborhood of planets.

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Published : Jan 4, 2018