Scientists are finding liquid water, the cornerstone for life as we know it, in surprising nooks and crannies of the solar system.
Following Wednesday’s news that there seem to be hydrothermal vents churning away in the warm, alkaline seas inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus, researchers announced airtight evidence yesterday that Jupiter’s moon Ganymede also has a sizable ocean beneath its icy crust. Based on theoretical models and indirect evidence from the Voyager and Galileo missions, astronomers have assumed for decades that Ganymede harbors a subsurface ocean. But these latest measurements, obtained using the Hubble Space Telescope, make the case even more compelling. At the same time, our water-soaked solar system makes the failure to find extraterrestrial life all the more puzzling.
Nonsense. It's here, and has been here for a long, long time. But the mainstream science community is either too cowardly, or too dishonest to admmit it. To read more, click here.