Monday, September 16, 2013

Exomoons And Life

A new study suggests exomoons are unlikely to support life because moons likely don't come big enough to have their own magnetic fields, and strong magnetic fields are important as they shield life on the surface of a world from deadly cosmic radiation.

That said, some of the best candidates for life beyond Earth in the Solar System are Jupiter's Europa and Saturn's Titan and Enceladus.  All moons.

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