«If those plumes are connected with the subsurface water ocean we are confident exists under Europa's crust, then this means that future investigations can directly investigate the chemical makeup of Europa's
potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.
[For the Record, 1:40 p.m. PST, April 3: An earlier version of this post incorrectly indicated that Enceladus would need complex organic molecules to be considered
a potentially habitable environment.
«The main implication is that there are
potentially habitable environments in the Solar System in places which are completely unexpected.»
Not exact matches
Climate simulations hint at diverse alien
environments that could be harsh but also
potentially habitable.
With water, heat and organics, the Enceledean ocean is considered to be one of the
potentially most
habitable environments elsewhere in the Solar System.