I do not post as a scientist. Haha.
I have been watching X-files. I love X files. When I was a high school student, I used to watch X-files on TV during the dinner. The main character is a special agent Fox Mulder who is working for FBI. He is Oxford educated smart competent investing officer, but he is obsessed X-files which are unsolved the cases in FBI. He has a partner called Scully who is medical doctor and scientist, she plays devil’s advocate (as a character) from scientific or rational point of view in the story. In Mulder’s office, there is famous poster for fan, it says ‘I want to believe’ with the picture of UFO. I want to buy this poster.
Does intelligent extraterrestrial life exist? I don’t know. haha. But promising the star in the solar system is Europa, one of the Jupiter’s largest moon. What we do know is that Europa has water.
ICE SHELL : Europa is covered by an icy rind with a temperature of about -210F.
INTERIOR : As Europa moves through its orbit, it is gravitationally plucked by its sister moons. This leads to what’s known as tidal heating.
OCEAN : Water is kept liquid by interior heat, that may be 100 miles deep.
GEYSERS : Water from below sometimes bubbles or bursts through fractures in the ice. These cracks also allow surface material, including organic compound, to filter back down.
Sodium chloride : The planetary scientist Mike Brown of Cal Tech found, there is not only magnesium sulfate salt on Europa’s surface but also likely sodium chloride which is you know ordinary sea salt in the ocean.
Comets : Europa has been attacked by many comets in its long life, and comets are known as carriers of organic or carbon-containing, compounds.
The important 4 things,
Salt + Organics + Warmth + Water = ????
Are you ready for the truth? I am not expert on life. But we should find something on this planet.