Study examines possibility of Earth bacteria reaching Europa's subsurface ocean via dust particles
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Keith Cowing
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This paper explores the hypothesis that dust particles containing living bacteria could be ejected from Earth and travel through space to reach Europa, potentially seeding its subsurface ocean with life. The analysis considers various factors that would influence the viability of such interplanetary transfer of life from Earth to Jupiter's moon.
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It is shown that, taking certain factors into account, over a per
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