Wednesday, 4 September 2019

On Icy Moons, Alien Life May Go with the Flow of Ocean Currents

Enceladus. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.




Joel Kontinen

Oceans might host life. This is a discovery made by some scientists, who see a world teeming with life in our solar system.

T"These oceans are really interesting in and of themselves," Krista Soderlund, an expert on planetary fluid dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin and author of the new research, told Space.com. "You often are first drawn to a satellite by what it looks like on its surface, but I think that what is going on beneath the surface is just as exciting and interesting."

She is now writing on Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede and on Saturn's moons Enceladus and Titan.

Her calculations suggest that the oceans on Enceladus and perhaps Titan could host currents in alternating bands and particularly strong heat flow near the poles. Europa, on the other hand, because its spin is less of a factor, seemed to sport the most noticeable heat flow near its equator.”

The latest research on oceans was published in a paper published on July 29 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

It seems that nothing can stop the secularist to claim that life exists – somewhere, but not created by God.

However, only God can give us life.

Source:

Bartels, Meghan. 2019. On Icy Moons, Alien Life May Go with the Flow of Ocean Currents. Space.com. (3 September).