miketx
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Dear witch doctor, while it may be that there is water under the ice of Jupiters moons, none of them are in the liquid water zone. For the reading impaired, The liquid water zone is the area that a planet is located around it's sun where water can exist naturally in the open without being frozen or boiling off into space. It is also sometimes referred to as the Goldilocks zone, ie, not to hot and not to clod.Wrong. Two moons of Jupiter almost certainly have liquid water beneath a layer of ice.An exoplanet is a planet that orbits outside of it's solar system, and most of them compare in size to Jupiter. I would not put much hope in a planet like that having life as we know it, or even other life that is alien.
For a planet to support life as we know it (Or even other life) it has to be in what some call the "Goldilocks zone". Not too hot and not too cold. Also scientists sometimes refer to this zone as the "liquid water zone". Water being a requirement for life on Earth anyway. So far in our solar system the Earth is the only planet known to have liquid water naturally occurring.
This report was premature.
