The United States space agency – NASA is supposedly planning an ambitious mission along with several international scientists to explore the possibility of life in Europa, which is the moon of the largest planet in our solar system – Jupiter. Europa is the sixth largest moon in the solar system, apart from being the closest moon of Jupiter and the smallest of its four satellites. The chances of finding life, or life supporting atmosphere there is high according to some scientists. Finding life or traces of life in other planets is a constant effort made by scientists and space agencies worldwide. The knowledge of other extra terrestrial life can help us learn a lot about life itself and extinction and the future possibility of our planet earth.
NASA administrator – Charles Frank Bolden said, we are planning to mount an international effort. We are trying to formulate a mission to go Jupiter’s giant moon Europa, because there are some scientists who believe in possibility of single-cell organisms being there in the waters of Europa. We don’t care where we find life elsewhere in Europa, but just imagine what that says about us and life, if we found out whether life exists at other places.
According to the NASA chief, they are also hopeful of finding life on Mars. He said – I hope we can go find single-cell organism. The reason we are looking at Mars is because it appears to most scientists that it is the most likely planet in our solar system that once harboured life, does harbour life or can support life. It does sound too far-fetched but scientists also believe that if a life sustainable planet is found, the problem of over-population on earth can be solved as people can be then transported to live a life in the alternate planet.
