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Hydrogen Peroxide Could Feed Life on Europa

April 5, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter According to research by NASA astronomers using the next-generation optics of the 10-meter Keck II telescope, Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moon Europa has hydrogen peroxide across much of the surface of its leading hemisphere, a compound that could potentially provide energy for life [...]

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In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found

November 30, 2012

Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica’s cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost completely frozen lake within Antarctica’s inland dry valleys, in dark, salt-laden and sub-freezing water full of nitrous oxide, life thrives… offering a clue at what might one day be found in similar environments elsewhere in [...]

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Clay Deposits Don’t Prove Existence of Ancient Martian Lakes

September 10, 2012

HiRISE image of branching features in the floor of Antoniadi Crater thought to contain clay material. (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) In the hunt for evidence of a warmer, wetter past on Mars, clay deposits have been viewed as good indications that stable liquid water existed on its surface for some time — perhaps even long enough [...]

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Is Triton Hiding an Underground Ocean?

September 7, 2012

Voyager 2 mosaic of Neptune’s largest moon, Triton (NASA) At 1,680 miles (2,700 km) across, the frigid and wrinkled Triton is Neptune’s largest moon and the seventh largest in the Solar System. It orbits the planet backwards – that is, in the opposite direction that Neptune rotates – and is the only large moon to do so, leading [...]

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Will Curiosity Look for Life on Mars? Not Exactly…

July 24, 2012

“Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We’re not actually looking for life and we don’t have the ability to detect life if it was there. What we are looking for is the ingredients of life.” – John Grotzinger, MSL Project Scientist And with these words this latest video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory begins, explaining [...]

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