Sentences with phrase «lived liquid oceans»

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When hydrogen and oxygen combine in a planet's atmosphere, they can ignite into a ball of fire and then leave behind liquid water oceans that would be good for life

Scientists don't want to risk a run - in between Juno and any of the icy moons, such as Europa, which could conceivably harbor life in its buried liquid water ocean.

For life as we know it to develop on other planets, those planets would need liquid water, or oceans.

But a few billion years ago a slightly fainter sun might have allowed for a relatively cool Venus, one where liquid water could have pooled in vast oceans that were friendly to life.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

If the planets are there, one of them is about the right distance from the star to sport mild temperatures, oceans of liquid water, and even life.

Europa, with its underground ocean of liquid water, has risen to one of the top slots on the list of places to search for potential extraterrestrial life.

If these rays from the dying star were to wash over a once - frozen moon or exoplanet, the planetary body's icy layer would melt into liquid: setting the stage for life to form in a flowing ocean.

Mission scientists have determined that this stuff is coming from a huge ocean of liquid water beneath the satellite's shell — and that this ocean may be capable of supporting life as we know it.

If Enceladus has had a liquid ocean for billions of years, life would have had the chance to emerge and evolve into a more complex form.

«Cold, salty waters may offer a refuge for life in extreme environments, as the salts could help keep the water liquid,» said Fairén, noting that the well - defined boundaries of the icy lobes suggest the ancient ocean was briny.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

Drabek - Maunder says: «Recent discoveries that icy moons in our outer Solar System could host oceans of liquid water and ingredients for life have sparked exciting possibilities for their habitability.

Cassini discovered a liquid - water ocean under the icy surface of the moon Enceladus and, perhaps a victim of its own success, must die to prevent any chance that its warm electric generators might melt their way down into those life - friendly waters.

A world with an iron core, rocky mantle and enough water on the surface to create liquid water oceans that could support life.

These lakes, that would be located deep in Europa's icy crust, could be communicating with the liquid water ocean below, while providing it with chemical elements from the surface that would be a valuable energy source to any potential life forms.

Many scientists believe Europa could be a good place to look for extraterrestrial life because it has an ocean of liquid water beneath its icy surface.

This is the best evidence yet that Enceladus does have a liquid ocean, bound to cause a stir amongst planetary scientists and re-ignite excitement for the search for life living in a salty sub-surface ocean.

A long line of evidence has shown that Europa has an underground ocean of liquid water, which for many scientists constitutes the best place in the Solar System to search for alien life.

This is why the deep ocean remains always liquid (any other liquid would turn to solid) and some say it is a necessary (although not sufficient) condition for the development of life on Earth.

Apparently there are a lot of people who seem to like that hippy commune style of living, and feel free, don't let me stop you, but I want the Jetson's, I want humans to become a spacefaring race, we need to mine the asteroid belt, and someday travel to the stars, but in the mean while there are oceans of liquid hydrocarbons (though not very practical as a home heating fuel, I realize) and boulders of platinum group metals out there to go get.

Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll - which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97 % of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.