{"id":25836,"date":"2016-05-18T16:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-just-found-evidence-that-there-could-be-alien-life-lurking-beneath-the-surface-of-this-mysterious-water-world"},"modified":"2017-04-26T12:59:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T19:59:32","slug":"scientists-just-found-evidence-that-there-could-be-alien-life-lurking-beneath-the-surface-of-this-mysterious-water-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-just-found-evidence-that-there-could-be-alien-life-lurking-beneath-the-surface-of-this-mysterious-water-world","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just found evidence that there could be alien life lurking beneath the surface of this mysterious water world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-evidence-that-there-could-be-alien-life-lurking-beneath-the-surface-of-this-mysterious-water-world.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/2016GL068547\/abstract\">study released by NASA<\/a> on Tuesday shows that oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter\u2019s 67 known moons, might have a lot in common with our own oceans, including a chemical balance capable of harboring life.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been eyeing the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/nasa-europa-mission-on-kcet-2016-4\">mysterious water world<\/a> as one of the most promising places to find alien life for a while now, and this study suggests they\u2019re on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>The moon, which is only a quarter the size of Earth, is covered in a thick shell of ice. But there is strong evidence that there could be a salty ocean deep beneath its surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-just-found-evidence-could-175800265.html\">http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/scientists-just-found-evidence...00265.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study released by NASA on Tuesday shows that oceans on Europa, one of Jupiter\u2019s 67 known moons, might have a lot in common with our own oceans, including a chemical balance capable of harboring life. Scientists have been eyeing the mysterious water world as one of the most promising places to find alien [\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-25836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836","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=25836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56240,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions\/56240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}