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06-June-2004, 08:50 AM
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Acidic Europa?
With a few threads on Europa and the possiblity of life I wasn't sure where to put this and so just started a new thread.
This article indicates that life might actually be hard pressed to have made it on Europa if it is correct in its analysis. Quote:
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06-June-2004, 09:16 AM
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ok, i'm not gonna punch in too profoundly here,
except to say that i am in favor of life being on Europa JIMO is a really cool name for a space probe oh, and the more extreme the conditions, the better someday, volcanic sulphur jellyfish they're gonna save us all :P Jupiter has 4 moons the rest are parasites 8)
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06-June-2004, 06:08 PM
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Well, at least we know that there is no pure water, but there are salts and everything in it, otherwise we could not have measured the inductive magnetic field around Europa. That is one thing.
Next to that I have thoroughly investigated the surroundings of Europa and found that there was a lot of SO2 (as one would expect, with Io shooting out a tonn per second of this stuff). Next to that, to our surprise we found a significant signature of chlorine (Cl+ and Cl-). When that all bombards the surface of Europa and gets implanted and transported inward, which we can assue happens, we can have sulfuric and chloric acid in the ocean under the icy layer. (published in Journal of Geophyiscal Research) Naturally how concentrated it is, is anyone's guess.
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