According to scientists, that in Europe there is a high probability of detection of life.

the American space Agency NASA plans to send a space probe to Europa - Jupiter, writes NewScientist.

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According to scientists, that in Europe there is a high probability of detection of life. This is the conclusion they came to after the space probe Galileo presented evidence that under the icy crust of a satellite can be a huge liquid salty ocean.

NASA has already begun preparation for a mission to Europe, however, the Agency was faced with insufficient funding of the project. To create and send a probe scientists will need approximately 255 million dollars, however, the budget office for 2016 on this mission allocated a total of 30 million.

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In late January, Russian scientists have found indirect evidence of the possible existence of life in the waters of the ocean to Europe, probureu in Antarctica (earth) the deep well (3769 meters) to the subglacial lake Vostok. < / br>
Glaciologists found that the temperature of the water in this lake is only 2-3 degrees Celsius at a pressure of 400 times more atmospheric. In addition, saturation of the deep lake with oxygen 100 times more than in terrestrial reservoirs.

Photo: Alex Tolstikov

Scientists believe that lake Vostok is similar in its extreme conditions with the ocean in Europe, so do not rule out the fact that in the waters of the satellites of Jupiter can be life.

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