What do you think of when you think of Europa? Some people will remember the fountains on Europa, which are thousands of meters high, and some people will imagine that there will be many octopus-like creatures on Europa's bottom of the ocean. In short, humanity is full of expectations for this distant celestial body. And because Europa is the most likely celestial body with extraterrestrial life among the major celestial bodies in the solar system, the scientific community is also very eager to send probes to the bottom of Europa to explore and study the bottom of Europa and find out the bottom of the planet.
Recently, human research has found that Europa can produce 1,000 tons of oxygen per day. This discovery is undoubtedly striking.
1. Sufficient oxygen
Oxygen is needed to support the survival of living organisms. The absence of oxygen means that life cannot be sustained. Therefore, human exploration of extraterrestrial celestial bodies first needs to analyze whether there is air on a planet, the moon is a planet without air, and the composition of air is analyzed, for example, although Mars has air, but the proportion of oxygen in the Martian air is very low, at least human beings can not rely on the oxygen of Mars to live.
Europa is undoubtedly rich in oxygen, and scientists have calculated that Europa produces enough oxygen to live more than a million people every day. Therefore, human beings are very excited, thinking that since Europa has so much oxygen, then the possibility of breeding organisms has also been greatly improved, in addition, Europa's oxygen may also mean that if humans build a space station here, or a space base, they can not consider the problem of oxygen, this advantage, which Mars and the moon do not have.
2. Source of oxygen on Europa
However, when it comes to this, many people will wonder: where does Europa's oxygen come from? Because for the earth, a large part of the source of oxygen is the seaweed of the ocean and the release of oxygen by plants on land through photosynthesis. So, is it possible to extrapolate the presence of a large amount of algae on Europa based on the presence of a large amount of oxygen on Europa?
Science is rigorous, so it cannot be studied by imagination, but by other equally plausible possibilities. Because Europa has a liquid ocean, it is likely that Europa's oxygen source is the oxygen produced by Europa's oceans under the influence of the sun that produces a similar electrolysis reaction. In fact, scientists are currently inclined to believe that Europa's oxygen was produced by the sun's intervention in an electrolytic reaction.
3. The significance of marine life
However, even if the source of oxygen cannot be attributed to marine algae, humans have high hopes for Europa's existence in the ocean. For human beings, if one day marine life can be discovered on the bottom of Europa in the future, then the biological science research of human beings will be of milestone significance - human beings can determine the origin of Europa's marine life through the means of genetic sequencing of Europa's marine organisms, and through gene comparison, analyze where the origin of the earth's organisms came from- Because about the origin of life on the earth, there is a saying that the earth's organisms actually come from small celestial bodies, but because of the impact on the earth, under the incubation and breeding of the earth's environment, there are many creatures on the earth.
In short, if Europa discovers creatures, it will be of great significance.