Over the past 50 years space exploration has
revealed that oceans exist on the moons of other
planets in our Solar System. But what exactly
- if anything – lives beneath the surface
of these otherworldly seas?
Story by Fred Watson Illustrations by Alex Ries
ALIEN
OCEANS
Waterworld. Could there be alien life in the
vast subsurface oceans of Jupiter’s moon
Europa? Nobody knows for sure, but there’s
already talk of sending robotic submarine
probes that could be delivered via holes
drilled through the icy crust. This technology
may be ready within the next half century.November–December 2015 47