{"id":19535,"date":"2015-11-23T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T19:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/theres-a-mission-to-this-mysterious-water-world-that-could-detect-the-first-alien-life"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:06","slug":"theres-a-mission-to-this-mysterious-water-world-that-could-detect-the-first-alien-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/theres-a-mission-to-this-mysterious-water-world-that-could-detect-the-first-alien-life","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a mission to this mysterious water world that could detect the first alien life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-mission-to-this-mysterious-water-world-that-could-detect-the-first-alien-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In February, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-annouces-plans-to-visit-europa-2015-2\">NASA announced<\/a> that it was investing in a $2 billion mission to Europa \u2014 a tiny moon of Jupiter that is one of the most likely places for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Their spacecraft, called the Europa Multi-Flyby Mission, would orbit Jupiter, taking frequent passes by Europa for a close look at its surface.<\/p>\n<p>But there is another important piece of the puzzle that NASA is exploring, and in a recent conversation with US Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>\u2019s senior space editor, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/ericberger\/\">Eric Berger<\/a>, reported the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2015\/11\/attempt-no-landing-there-yeah-right-were-going-to-europa\/1\/\">details<\/a> \u2014 it\u2019s a lander and it could be the key to discovering the first extraterrestrial life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/theres-secret-mission-water-world-222231358.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, NASA announced that it was investing in a $2 billion mission to Europa \u2014 a tiny moon of Jupiter that is one of the most likely places for life beyond Earth. Their spacecraft, called the Europa Multi-Flyby Mission, would orbit Jupiter, taking frequent passes by Europa for a close look at its surface. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69150,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19535\/revisions\/69150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}