Exploring Europa: Icy Moon of Jupiter and the Potential for Life

Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, offers fascinating insights into its composition, subsurface oceans, and potential for hosting extremophiles. Explore the geology, chaos terrain, and interaction between the ocean and crust. Could there be life on Europa? Learn how salt affects water freezing points and the existence of extremophiles in extreme conditions.

• Europa Exploration
• Icy Moon
• Subsurface Oceans
• Extremophiles
• Potential for Life

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1. Europa Icy Moon of Jupiter

2. Objectives By the end of this lesson you will be able to: Understand the composition of Europa Explain the formation of the cracks on Europa s surface Describe the nature of Europa's subsurface oceans Explore extremophiles and life in space

3. Europa captured by the Galileo mission (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Seti Institute, late 1990s)

4. Geology of Europa

5. Europas surface

7. Europa's Chaos Terrain NASA, 2020

8. Europas Sub- surface ocean

9. How salt lowers the freezing point of water

10. Life in extreme cold Temperatures: Extremophiles

11. Do you think there could be life on Europa?

12. Recap Now we can... 2 3 1 Understand interactions between the subsurface ocean and crust Understand extremophiles and the potential for life on Europa Describe the geology and composition of Europa