{"id":7232,"date":"2011-02-12T00:59:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:51:08","slug":"the-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moons-begins-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2011\/02\/the-search-for-life-on-jupiters-moons-begins-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SEARCH FOR LIFE ON JUPITER&#8217;S MOONS BEGINS IN 2020!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/out-of-this-world\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1120\" title=\"out-of-this-world\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/out-of-this-world.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/02\/07\/6005885-scientists-to-probe-for-life-on-jupiters-moons\" target=\"_\">MSNBC<\/a> has reported that scientists may finally get a chance to probe Jupiter&#8217;s moons Europa and Ganymede for signs of microbial life, by looking in what are thought to be liquid oceans beneath their frozen crusts.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Europa Jupiter Systems Mission is one of three finalists vying to carry out the European Space Agency&#8217;s next big mission. The other two missions vying for funding are the International X-ray Observatory, which could reveal what happens in the vicinity of black holes, and Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, which will &#8220;listen&#8221; to gravitational waves, giving space-time a sort of soundtrack. All three mission plans were presented on February 3rd, 2011, at a conference in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/europa-system2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7240\" title=\"europa-system\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/europa-system2-300x265.jpg?resize=300%2C265\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/europa-system2.jpg?resize=300%2C265&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/europa-system2.jpg?resize=475%2C420&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/europa-system2.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>All three missions are international collaborations, so Europe&#8217;s decision is tied to and will have consequences for the priorities of NASA, a partner on all three, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, a partner on IXO.<\/p>\n<p>Under the joint NASA-ESA Europa Jupiter Systems Mission, NASA will target Europa, an ice-covered moon thought to harbor a liquid ocean beneath its crust; ESA will head to Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Which mission is set as a priority in Europe will become clearer this June. NASA has thrown preliminary support behind all three. Whatever the decision may be, the mission selected wouldn&#8217;t launch until around 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has reported that scientists may finally get a chance to probe Jupiter&#8217;s moons Europa and Ganymede for signs of microbial life, by looking in what are thought to be liquid oceans beneath their frozen crusts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[26,612,613,1121,615,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-7232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-aliens","9":"tag-europa-life","10":"tag-ganymede-life","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-seti","13":"tag-ufos"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Europa-moon41.jpg?fit=600%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}