MIT Tech Review: ranking prospects for life in the solar system

[notFritzArgelander]

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/0 ... ket-newtab

[Ylem]

Great article
I'm a big believer if we find life elsewhere, it will be on the moon's of the gas giants!

[turboscrew]

Like I mentioned in another thread, one always learns something here:
"And Ganymede has something else no other moon in the solar system has: a magnetic field."

[GCoyote]

I noticed that comment. I expect that would only be important for life on the surface of the object in question. In most cases these bodies are thought to have large reservoirs of underground water and any indigenous life would be found there, well shielded from external radiation. Still interesting however.

[notFritzArgelander]

I noticed that comment. I expect that would only be important for life on the surface of the object in question. In most cases these bodies are thought to have large reservoirs of underground water and any indigenous life would be found there, well shielded from external radiation. Still interesting however.

Yes, it provides a very interesting control versus nonmagnetic moons.