Jupiter's Moon Europa May Be Home To Killer Jellyfish, Scientists Find
Killer alien jellyfish may be a routine sight on Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. According to experts, Europa has the right conditions for scary stingers, ones that may be deadlier than ones found on Earth.
How did scientists reach this conclusion? They were studying newly formed "gashes" on Greenland and found them similar to terrain on Jupiter's moon Europa.
In the 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft first photographed "double ridges" around 1,000 feet high and almost a kilometre apart. At the time, it was unclear what caused this ridges to appear, until scientists noted a similar pattern in north-west Greenland, where ice had fractures around a pocket of pressurised water.
The breathtaking surprise
Greenland is considered a fertile breeding region for jellyfish, slugs, shrimps, and snails. Now scientists believe that Jupiter's moon Europa may be blessed with abundant underwater life deep below the ice in a salty ocean.
Professor Dustin Schroeder, of California¡¯s University of Stanford, told The Sun - "Because it is closer to the surface - where you get interesting chemicals from space, other moons and the volcanoes of Io - there is a possibility life has a shot if there are pockets of water in the shell."
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Schroeder believes that if what scientists saw on Greenland is how things unfold on Europa, then "there is water everywhere."
According to The Sun, jellyfish on Europa would be way deadlier than the ones on Earth - even fatal to humans depending on their evolution. On Earth, jellyfish are considered generally harmless, but in case humans touch jellyfish, then they discharge a series of venoms that result in a lot of pain for the recipient, and sometimes lethal consequences.
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The discovery was made by accident. Turns out, the researchers were there to study climate change when they found ridges similar to the ones on Europa, Jupiter's moon.?
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References
Coleman, L. (2022, April 20). Killer alien jellyfish may be lurking in the water on Jupiter¡¯s moon. . . The Sun.?
