Jupiter’s moon Europa is flowing with buried liquid water ocean

There is speculation for some time, not everyone agrees, nor there is concrete proof.

The global ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa contains about twice the liquid water of all the Earth’s oceans combined. New research by Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona suggests that there may be plenty of oxygen available in that ocean to support life, a hundred times more oxygen than previously estimated.

The chances for life there have been uncertain, because Europa’s ocean lies beneath several miles of ice, which separates it from the production of oxygen at the surface by energetic charged particles (similar to cosmic rays). Without oxygen, life could conceivably exist at hot springs in the ocean floor using exotic metabolic chemistries, based on sulfur or the production of methane. However, it is not certain whether the ocean floor actually would provide the conditions for such life.

http://spacefellowship.com//2009/10/08/europa-capable-of-supporting-life-scientist-says/

http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/europa_worldbook.html

Search Richard Greenberg of the University of Arizona, the lead Professor of Planetary Sciences.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081008-europa-ocean.html

Using nudity to highlight a looming crisis ahead – MSN

Spencer Tunick, an American photographer and artist best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations is once again using the `naked medium’ to highlight danger of climatic change ahead of negotiations on a global climate treaty begin in December in Copenhagen.

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3265271&page=0

The Butterfly Nebula

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Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe

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Beautiful and Delicate Photos

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Strange jellies of the icy depths

clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from news.bbc.co.uk New details are emerging about the life-forms that survive in one of the world’s most inaccessible places. Scientists have published descriptions of a range of jelly-like animals that inhabit the deep oceans of the Arctic. The animals were originally filmed and photographed during a series of submersible dives in 2005. clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from news.bbc.co.uk The small blue jelly, a type of Narcomedusae, is new to science. One of the biggest surprises is that one of the most common animals in the Arctic deep sea is a type of jellyfish that is completely new to science. In pictures: Icy jellies clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from news.bbc.co.uk Crossota millsae, a brilliant red and purple jellyfish found at a depth of 2000m in the Arctic Ocean, is also found off California and Hawaii. an international team of scientists conducted a series of deep-sea dives using a remote operated vehicle There were a lot of surprises just how many different jellies there were, and the sizes of their populations clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from news.bbc.co.uk The large bright orange Aulacoctena species may get its colour from worms that it eats clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk clipped from newsimg.bbc.co.uk