Hello. Good evening everyone. How are you all doing? Hope you are all doing well. How much are you guys interested in space? Especially the celestial bodies in our galaxy. It was my favorite side of science while growing up. I was always absolutely stoked to learn about these. And I want to share some new findings with you. We all know that scientists are always trying to find a planet that is habitable for humans. They have over the years found different planets in our solar system or in different foreign galaxies which could possibly sustain human life. But eventually many didn't pass the tests. There are still assessments on going on some of those planets. But among all this one thing really caught my eye.
Y'all know the gas giant Jupiter right? And you probably also remember that Jupiter has moons? So it was the kicker. Some scientists have always believed that one of those moons of Jupiter can actually sustain life. I am talking about Europa. So the scientists think that Europa can sustain life. No for context due to Jupiter being a gas giant and one of its moons, Io, being volcanically active, there is debris and volcanic elements in the pathway of the moons of Jupiter. So, due to this, And the magnetic fields of IO and Jupiter itself, The total mass of Europa is always contracting and expanding. So there was sort of a pumping effect. So beneath the ice layer that has surrounded the moon, scientists believe that in those pumping effects, water from underneath is pumped outside. So they are trying to place a lunar probe that will be able to swoop in near the high radiation magnetic fields and pathway of the moons of Jupiter and take some photos of the surface to reassess whether the water available is any good or not. The whole plan is very fascinating. But what's more astonishing is that all the people of Earth and they are trying to fit all of them in a celestial body that is only 6% of the Earth's surface area. Now. I don't know what kind of math they've used, but the fact that they're actually spending billions of dollars to send these pros out to Jupiter which will take some 5 or 6 years to get in position and then take those photos and then process them and then finally someday in the future sending the back to planet Earth, the whole thing is a bit hard to believe.
But at the same time questions arise because even the European space agency along with NASA are trying to send a probe to that area in the same time period. So there will be two probes canvassing the radiated area of Jupiter to search for signs of life beneath the icy layers of Europa. So as much as I love to see the photos of these unknowingly beautiful things from outer space, my initial question on the feasibility of the whole operation still remains.
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