{"id":88344,"date":"2019-03-03T13:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon"},"modified":"2019-03-03T13:03:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T21:03:57","slug":"vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon","title":{"rendered":"Vast underground ocean discovered on Jupiter\u2019s largest moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Artist\u2019s Concept of Aurorae and Ganymede1\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>In this artist\u2019s concept, the moon Ganymede (right) orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae (lights) on the moon generated by Ganymede\u2019s magnetic fields. A saline ocean under the moon\u2019s icy crust best explains shifting in the auroral belts measured by Hubble. (credit: NASA\/ESA)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has the best evidence yet for an underground saltwater ocean on Ganymede, Jupiter\u2019s largest moon. The subterranean ocean is thought to have more water than all the water on Earth\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying liquid water is crucial in the search for habitable worlds beyond Earth and for the search of life as we know it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-on-jupiters-largest-moon\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/vast-underground-ocean-discovered-...rgest-moon<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 In this artist\u2019s concept, the moon Ganymede (right) orbits the giant planet Jupiter. NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope observed aurorae (lights) on the moon generated by Ganymede\u2019s magnetic fields. A saline ocean under the moon\u2019s icy crust best explains shifting in the auroral belts measured by Hubble. (credit: NASA\/ESA) NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88344","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}