Did NASA find life on any of the two moons? I'm confused. Thanks in advance.
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Athena say: Not yet.
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CarolOklaNola say: No, not yet, on either Moon, but they BOTH have water. water vapor, which means they MIGHT have life, but does NOT mean they HAVE to have life.. Mars and the Moon have water too.
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Choose a bloody best answer. It's not hard. say: Very difficult to see microbes hundreds of miles away and buried miles deep. Give them a while to determine one way or the other.
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Quadrillian say: No.
nasa is so desperate for funding these days that they whip the media up into a frenzy every time they discover a whiff of methane somewhere, a puff of water vapor, or one of those ephemeral exoplanets. They reckon by doing this they will appeal to the retard in us all, and we will thus give the nod to extra funding.
Boy, are they in for a surprise. And these guys are supposed to be geniuses?
Cheers!
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spot a say: Discovery of life somewhere else in the solar system will be all over the news and the internet, No life (apart from space aliens for which there is no proof yet) has ever been found anywhere else than on earth. A test for life on Mars heats the samples to high temperature. Some believe this destroys the life they are testing for
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Nyx say: Nope. Just the possibility of life.
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Matt say: No. They found hydrogen which completes the oxygen, carbon dioxide and hydrogen combination needed to support life as we know it. Enceleadus also has a liquid ocean. Europa which also has a liquid ocean has yet to be confirmed to have this full set of conditions. The discovery with Enceleadus is so important as apart from the fact it means that there is a very slim chance that there potentially could be some sort of primitive microbial life there or evidence of there being in the past, that it shows that if in our own solar system there is more than one world with the conditions for life then out there in the galaxy, universe etc it must be very common. The laws of averages then suggest that surely life has developed elsewhere and into intelligent life. Before today the Earth was the only confirmed world with these conditions. On a final note, Enceleadus has now proven itself to be a potential stop gap for humans if we ever have to leave Earth.
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Brigalow Bloke say: No life has been found anywhere off the Earth. There is a lot of media bolox talked about life on these places which defies what we know of chemistry and biology.
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quantumclaustrophobe say: Well... not yet, anyway. They flew Cassini through the geyser plumes of Enceladus, and discovered it was salty water, and indications are good that Europa might have a moon-wide ocean beneath it's ice - but they still need to investigate closer.
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L. E. Gant say: No. Just the precursors that could result in life sometime in the future, based on modern theory.
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