00:00NASA scientists have made a discovery that is rewriting the search for life beyond Earth.
00:05New data has revealed compelling evidence of a hidden liquid ocean beneath the surface of a distant moon in our
00:12outer solar system.
00:13The chemical signatures detected are not just water.
00:17They include the compounds that scientists say are necessary preconditions for microbial life as we know it.
00:23No direct evidence of life has been found.
00:26But this is the closest any human probe has come to identifying conditions where life could exist right now, today,
00:33outside of Earth.
00:35The finding advances the growing scientific consensus that liquid water, and potentially life, is far more common in our solar
00:43system than previously believed.
00:45For NASA, this discovery will reshape mission priorities.
00:48The agency is now accelerating plans for a direct sampling mission to confirm whether the ocean detected contains biological activity.
00:57For the rest of us, it raises the oldest and most fundamental question.
01:02Are we alone?
01:04Scientists say we may have the technology to answer that question within the next decade.
01:08Nobody wait!
01:09You may need to accession games on Earthquake, again.
Comments