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Message 1551443 - Posted: 2 Aug 2014, 14:23:21 UTC

I think there is a high probability of finding some form of life on one or more of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn but nothing that relates to the seti project. Except that when we verify that earth is not the only planet in the universe where life has evolved we can be sure that somewhere other intelligent beings are asking the same questions. It will really be a cruel trick if we do establish that other beings like us exist but that the means of interstellar travel only exist at sublight speeds.
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Message 1551486 - Posted: 2 Aug 2014, 16:32:41 UTC - in response to Message 1551443.  

Bob,

I think that that's what may eventually come to pass
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Message 1552377 - Posted: 4 Aug 2014, 22:47:42 UTC - in response to Message 1551486.  

A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io

Three massive volcanic eruptions occurred on Jupiter's moon Io within a two-week period in August of last year. This led astronomers to speculate that such "outbursts," which can send material hundreds of miles above the surface, might be much more common than they thought.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2014/08/suns-corona-puzzle/
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Message 1553394 - Posted: 7 Aug 2014, 22:34:21 UTC - in response to Message 1552377.  

"How The Universe Works" Next Wednesday, Saturn :) Check your local programming.

Great Show!! Yes, some alien life is there, on Titan.

Aliens Could Live Like This: Life Found in Oily Goo

Tiny habitats hidden within oil could expand the potential for life in the universe, researchers say.

Scientists have discovered microbes living in microscopic droplets of water inside a giant asphalt lake on Earth, suggesting that alien life could exist within ponds of sludge on distant landscapes such as Saturn's largest moon Titan.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/aliens-could-live-life-found-oily-goo-n175531
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Message 1553825 - Posted: 8 Aug 2014, 19:51:13 UTC - in response to Message 1553394.  

"How The Universe Works" Next Wednesday, Saturn :) Check your local programming.

Great Show!! Yes, some alien life is there, on Titan.

Aliens Could Live Like This: Life Found in Oily Goo

Tiny habitats hidden within oil could expand the potential for life in the universe, researchers say.

Scientists have discovered microbes living in microscopic droplets of water inside a giant asphalt lake on Earth, suggesting that alien life could exist within ponds of sludge on distant landscapes such as Saturn's largest moon Titan.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/aliens-could-live-life-found-oily-goo-n175531


Thanks Lynn :) Going to start working on a means of communicating with my pond's slime... in case it proves useful one day! :)
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Message 1554427 - Posted: 9 Aug 2014, 23:22:52 UTC - in response to Message 1553825.  

Good 1 anniet sounds like a good idea
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Message 1554433 - Posted: 9 Aug 2014, 23:48:28 UTC - in response to Message 1554427.  

Mars is right next door. We have sent numerous probes. Let's find out if life ever existed there or still does exist.
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Message 1554692 - Posted: 10 Aug 2014, 19:57:48 UTC

*sigh* okay... but I warn you... it's not going well with the slime... and I really had no success with my pet rock when I was little... must've bored it rigid, it certainly did me... but if there IS life on Mars I WILL chat with it :)
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Message 1579707 - Posted: 29 Sep 2014, 23:59:21 UTC - in response to Message 1555038.  

Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions.

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Message 1579709 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 0:12:05 UTC - in response to Message 1579707.  

Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea

NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions.

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Nice find Lynn :) Very interesting! Thank you :)
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Message 1579744 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 1:58:10 UTC

Maybe it's a methane iceberg.
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Message 1579746 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 2:01:40 UTC - in response to Message 1579744.  

And maybe it's not.
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Message 1579773 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 4:28:29 UTC - in response to Message 1579746.  
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And maybe it's not.

Well... that's me dashed on the rocks... unless...

Maybe it's monitoring what that weird thing that keeps doing a flyby is up to... :)))
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Message 1579818 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 6:27:21 UTC - in response to Message 1579773.  

We need to go to Titan and find out, what's there.
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Message 1579842 - Posted: 30 Sep 2014, 8:16:19 UTC - in response to Message 1579818.  

We need to go to Titan and find out, what's there.


We did have the Huygens there:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens_(spacecraft)
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Message 1588059 - Posted: 17 Oct 2014, 0:40:01 UTC - in response to Message 1580971.  

Image from Titan from Huygens




I know about Huygens, just a shame we can't get a manned mission there.
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Message 1588060 - Posted: 17 Oct 2014, 0:42:24 UTC - in response to Message 1588059.  

Another Saturn Moon..

Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean

A new study focused on the interior of Saturn's icy moon Mimas suggests its cratered surface hides one of two intriguing possibilities: Either the moon's frozen core is shaped something like a football, or the satellite contains a liquid water ocean.

Researchers used numerous images of Mimas taken by NASA's Cassini mission to determine how much the moon wobbles as it orbits Saturn. They then evaluated several possible models for how its interior might be arranged, finding two possibilities that fit their data.The study is published in the Oct. 17 issue of the journal Science.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/saturn-moon-may-hide-a-fossil-core-or-an-ocean/index.html
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Message 1590929 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 19:54:06 UTC - in response to Message 1454511.  

If you are looking for microscopic life you look in clay. The clay they found on mars had no microscopic fossilized microbes. On earth you can find fossil life anywhere limestone is fossil corals. Mars im afraid unless they find life many miles deep on mars anything in more shallow depths is now frozen and fossilized in place. Mars is very dead.
If this ocean on Europa could be a place to look, follow the water these few moons are all there is for liquid water other than earth. Saturn is like a solar system in miniture and teaches us to look at moons of gas giants. There are several earth sized moons around Saturn and most of its moons are asteroids or comets. A fine example Hyperon one of the premevial ice comets looks like a sponge has carbonious dust on its surface. This is what earths water came from these icy comets. In the late bombarmnet time many of these comets were thick in the inner solar system.
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Message 1590933 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 20:06:00 UTC

There's a large ocean that covers the whole of Europa, right beneath its thick crust. Plans have been made by scientists to investigate that odd moon, because there could be a swarm of underwater life under that thick icy crust. The lacking of funds refrains from doing so. It's the only place, we know, in our solar system that could hold real biological alien life!
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Message 1591046 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 23:36:45 UTC - in response to Message 1590933.  
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Also on this moon, the tidal forces that stretch and deform Europa caused by Jupiter create lots of heat which may mean that there is a liquid ocean. let's hope that it is a water ocean.

I think that the ice layer can be up to 2 miles thick.
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