From Dr. Becky.
AD – Go to https://ground.news/drbecky to stay fully informed with the latest Space and Science news. Save 40% off the Vantage plan through my link for unlimited access this month only. | Where are we likely to find life in our Solar System outside of Earth? Mars, Venus, or maybe even Europa? A moon of Jupiter. The more we study the moons of the gas giants, the more they surprise us, with Saturn’s moons Enceladus and Titan turning out to look like pretty good candidates for finding life. Enceladus even has plumes, big geysers of water, coming from its poles suggesting there’s a liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. The Cassini mission even flew through those plumes and found that water even contains the building blocks for life. And there’s a lot of moons that also have this icy crust that are thought to be hiding a liquid water ocean underneath them. One of those is in orbit around Europa, which is why NASA have decided to send the Europa Clipper mission to investigate which launches very soon in October 2024, but won’t arrive at the Jupiter system until 2030. And it’s main mission is to work out if Europa is habitable to life or not?
More on the Europa Clipper mission – https://europa.nasa.gov/
00:00 Introduction
01:51 AD – Ground News
03:33 – What’s europa like and why do we think it has a liquid ocean?
06:28 – Why did NASA pick Europa over e.g. Saturn’s moon Enceladus?
07:53 – What experiments will the Europa Clipper mission do test whether Europa is habitable?
10:57 – Bloopers
Video filmed on a Sony ⍺7 IV
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👩🏽💻 I’m Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford (Christ Church). I love making videos about science with an unnatural level of enthusiasm. I like to focus on how we know things, not just what we know. And especially, the things we still don’t know. If you’ve ever wondered about something in space and couldn’t find an answer online – you can ask me! My day job is to do research into how supermassive black holes can affect the galaxies that they live in. In particular, I look at whether the energy output from the disk of material orbiting around a growing supermassive black hole can stop a galaxy from forming stars.
