Where Could Life Exist?

When NASA scientists announced earlier this year that they had found evidence of liquid water on Mars, imaginations ran wild with the possibility that life could exist somewhere other than here on Earth.

Scientists continue to explore the possibility that Mars once looked a lot like Earth — salty oceans, fresh water lakes, and a water cycle to go with it. That’s exciting stuff.

So where else are they looking? What exactly are they looking for?

There are nine places in our universe where scientists say life is a possibility. The locations range from a smoking hot planet like Venus to a moon that orbits Saturn called Enceladus, which looks a lot like a massive, tightly-packed ball of ice.

All of these places show signs that water is, or at least was, a possibility. They also appear to feature some kind of energy that could produce heat.

full resolution

More Posts from Xnzda and Others

xnzda

6 years ago

Constellations.

Tags

art constellations

132K notes View Post

xnzda

5 years ago

have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!

321K notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago

TODAY IN HISTORY: Planet Neptune is observed by the Voyager 2 space probe on August 24, 1989. (via)

Tags

neptune

38K notes View Post

xnzda

5 years ago

THE UNIVERSE SAID TRANS RIGHTS!! 🗣🗣

102K notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago

The original nine. js

Tags

space

1,067K notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago

If you were on the moon during a lunar eclipse and you looked back at the Earth, you would see it surrounded by the red ring of the sun behind it. You’d be looking at every sunset and every sunrise on Earth at the same time.

Tags

text

18K notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago

Tags

io europa ganymede jupiter moons

149K notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago

The Pinwheel Galaxy - this giant disk of stars, dust and gas is 170,000 light-years across; nearly twice the diameter of the Milky Way. It is estimated to contain at least one trillion stars, approximately 100 billion of which could be like our Sun in terms of temperature and lifetime [6000x4690]

Tags

galaxy messier 101 m101 pinwheel galaxy

914 notes View Post

xnzda

6 years ago