"Great Lakes" Discovered on Jupiter Moon?
Giant water body may be source of otherworldly life, study says.
Lying about 1.9 miles (3 kilometers) from the surface, the ice-trapped lake may represent the newest potentially habitable environment in the solar system—and one of the best prospects for the search for life beyond Earth.
"For decades scientists have thought Jupiter's moon Europa was a likely place for life, but now we have specific, exciting regions on the icy moon to focus our future studies," Don Blankenship, senior research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics, told National Geographic News.
(Related: "Could Jupiter Moon Harbor Fish-Size Life?")
Similar in size to Earth's moon,
