One top British space scientist named Professor Monica Grady has recently revealed that she believes there is extraterrestrial life on one of Jupiter’s 79 moons, one that’s named Europa. This particular orb happens to be the planet’s sixth largest moon in the solar system and apparently it could very well have livable conditions under all its miles of ice.
Alien hunting has always been popular, as well as being one space program that’s wildly supported by the public too. Finding extraterrestrial life has always been a strong incentive for people to venture into space and search, even if there has never been true evidence of life in space so far.
Except Professor Grady might have changed all that. She shared in a recent speech that she’s certain that there is ‘some form of life on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.’
But unlike what most people believe aliens look like, which is usually human-like, the one she’s talking about looks more like an “octopus.” And she thinks that they are living beneath the chilly waters below Europa’s ice sheets.
Professor Grady happens to be a professor or Planetary and Space Science and Chancellor at Liverpool Hope University, and she claims that there’s a strong possibility that there really is undiscovered life lurking in our galaxies unbeknownst to the rest of the world.
And she doesn’t think that’s its only on Jupiter. Professor Grady also thinks that in the cavernous spaces and deeper caves of the planet Mars could also have some subterranean creatures, like bacteria, that are hiding away in order to escape from the sun’s unrelenting radiation. She says that there’s a chance they’re managing to get water from the ice that happens to be buried deep down.
She said in a speech in February, “When it comes to the prospects of life beyond Earth, it’s almost a racing certainty that there’s life beneath the ice on Europa.”
She also assumes that these creatures that live on Europa, which sits 390 million miles away from Earth, are also ‘higher in sophistication than the Martian bacteria,’ and that there’s a chance they have “the intelligence of an octopus.”
So where exactly are these creatures surviving on Europa? She claims that it’s somewhere underneath the extremely thick layer of ice that happens to be 15 miles deep in certain places. She also says that it’s possible that there is liquid water beneath the ice that aids in keeping whatever inhabitants inside safe and protected against radiation and the possible impact from asteroids and likewise smashing bodies.
To further push the agenda that there is really life on Jupiter’s sixth moon, evidence is reinforced by the likely hydrothermal vents on its ocean floor, which are considered ‘cradles of life on Earth.’
Professor Grady also states that it’s probably not that our solar system is special, statistically speaking, but rather when more stars and galaxies are explored, ‘we should be able to find conditions for life.’
“I think it’s highly likely there will be life elsewhere – and I think it’s highly likely they’ll be made of the same elements,” she explained.
She also expressed that she doesn’t want to guess if there will be an attempt to get in touch with any of these extraterrestrials any time soon. And one of the main reasons why is due to the undeniable fact that the distance between Earth and these possible alien creatures might be incredibly gigantic or just too far.
Although, she also explained that on the other hand, if you compare it with a grain of sand, you “can see that most of it is made up of silicates, but it’s also got little patches of carbon in it – and that carbon is extra-terrestrial, because it also contains nitrogen and hydrogen, which is not a terrestrial signature.”
Grady explained that this miniscule sample shows that it was hit by asteroids, meteorites, and interstellar dust, explaining “It’s giving us an idea of how complex the record of extra-terrestrial material really is.”
When it comes to Europa, rumors of alien life living there is nothing new. As per NASA, whose main objective is to find ‘life beyond Earth,’ scientists have referred to this moon as an “ocean world” precisely because decades of research and observations have forecasted an ocean beneath all its sheets of ice.
The idea of extraterrestrial life was further supported back in 2019 when NASA confirmed water vapor there for the very first time. Although Europa seems to have the appropriate conditions for life, does this truly mean that there are tiny octopus extraterrestrials floating and roaming all around? In the end, we’ll just have to wait and see.
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