Cosmic Queries – Volcanoes & Life in the Universe
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The Current Process of Detecting Life Outside of Earth
We want to look for habitable environments. We think that includes liquid water because we think from what we know about Earth and all the environments we find life in. The juice mission which launched just recently is looking at some moons around Jupiter that have warm interiors. They've got liquid water and these create what we call hydrothermal systems, which exists at the bottom of our oceans. And we think life actually started on Earth potentially at thebottom of our oceans where the heat is emanating from the Earth. It's interacting with salty liquid water and creating nice environments from microbes to thrive. So that's where we're going. We're going to look for these environments and then we're going to
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