{"id":213080,"date":"2024-03-13T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T20:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/europas-seafloor-may-be-impenetrable-and-inhospitable-to-life\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:20:41","slug":"europas-seafloor-may-be-impenetrable-and-inhospitable-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/europas-seafloor-may-be-impenetrable-and-inhospitable-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa\u2019s seafloor may be impenetrable and inhospitable to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=100 100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=200 200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=249 249w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/12210332\/SEI_195716057.jpg?width=900 900w\" class=\"image size-full wp-image-2421978 ReplaceImageLazyload\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1130px) 900px, (min-width: 1025px) 900, (min-width: 768px) calc(100vw - 30px), calc(100vw - 30px)\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" data-credit=\"NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SETI Institute\" data-caption=\"Europa has an underground ocean, but it might not be as hospitable for life as Earth\u2019s seas are\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Europa has an underground ocean, but it might not be as hospitable for life as Earth\u2019s seas are<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SETI Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter\u2019s icy moon Europa may not be as ripe for life as previously thought. Its underground ocean has long made it one of the most promising candidates in our solar system to host life, but theoretical studies of its seafloor are putting a damper on its promise.<\/p>\n<p>On Earth, much of the life in the oceans is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/lastword\/mg24733001-600-deep-sea-hydrothermal-vents-team-with-life-how-are-they-colonised\/\">hydrothermal activity<\/a> at the seafloor, where water interacts with rock. This activity\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2421948-europas-seafloor-may-be-impenetrable-and-inhospitable-to-life\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Europa has an underground ocean, but it might not be as hospitable for life as Earth\u2019s seas are NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/SETI Institute Jupiter\u2019s icy moon Europa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337973,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213080\/revisions\/337973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}