A study from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that the Europa Ocean on Jupiter's icy moon has a potential Earth-like balance of chemical energy which is needed for life, even if the moon doesn't have any volcanic hydrothermal activity.
In the 1990's, NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter found evidence that Europa which is the same size of Earth's moon contained more water and ice than human's own world. The unmanned mission to Europa showed a very thick ice surface, leading scientist to believe there may be a liquid under that frozen crust. There have also been a lot of recent talks, speculations and excitement over the number of new possible habitable planets recently discovered in our galactic neighborhood. However, a study suggests that Jupiter's Icy moon Europa, which is just 390 million miles away from Earth, may harbor life.
According to The Indian Panorama, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said, "Europa is really cold - about 350 degrees below zero! That's a kind of cold we can't comprehend here on Earth. And that's not all. It's in a vacuum," Kevin Hand, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory astrobiologist, told Southern California public television station KCET. "There's no atmosphere, and then you've got the radiation," Hand said. He also explained that no human would want to stand on Europa's surface; no matter how beautiful it is, because you're going to die quickly due to the radiation environment.
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