Jupiter seems like an unlikely place for abundant life, since it is a gas planet. However, some of the moons of Jupiter offer interesting possibilities. The two most promising: Io has a hot molten interior and is the most volcanically active world in our solar system, while Europa has an icy surface and MAY have liquid water under the ice.
You don't have to stop at Jupiter, either. In fact, one of Neptune's moons (Triton) is geologically active despite its location in orbit around the coldest, most forbidding planet.
To summarize, if something about the solar system changes (cataclysmic for us, but good for the worlds further out), don't just consider the planets - in fact, the moons of these planets may become the worlds on which life forms evolve.
2006-10-09 12:41:49
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answered by Anonymous
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Jupiter has no actual mass that you can stand on except its core it is also to far away from the Sun to sustain life, that also includes its moons, all of those considered (its moons) we would have to somehow create an atmosphere and it would take more of the Earth's resources than we have to offer. As far as Mars its inter iron core is not spinning any more and it is also solid and no liquid iron for the inner core to rotate in, so it does not have a magnetosphere that it could not protect us from solar winds and x-rays, ultra violet rays and gamma rays.
Now is there maybe some place else that we could move to I would say yes. In looking for another plant to inhabit we need to have a Jupiter type planet in the same distance and orbital pattern as our Jovian giant to protect us from space debris we also need to have a geologically active planet that counties to recreate itself like Earth does. It needs to be about 4-5 million years old also to be somewhat stable. With the promise of being able to support vegetation and fresh water.
I think that it is possible but the only thing is that the space program would need to start training the average Joe for space exploration and I doubt that our tax payers are going to think it is a worthy cause.
2006-10-09 15:22:11
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answered by redhair_qt 2
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What makes you think of it takes a cataclysm to end a liveable era of a planet. Mars liveable era replaced into only shorter than Earth's. What takes the longest quantity of time in coming up existence is the 1st self replicating molecule, after that evolution takes over. Earth ought to get well with out postpone from the extinction of the dinosaurs using fact existence nevertheless existed so as that first molecule did not ought to style by making use of twist of destiny. it is somewhat a threat that however Mars would have had an prolonged sufficient liveable era for complicated existence to style, it perhaps did not if maximum of that factor replaced into spent waiting for that first self replicating molecule. between the theories in the back of how stepped forward existence has grow to be in the international is that Mars liveable era began lots formerly than Earth's and stepped forward microbial existence formerly it is liveable era ended, in spite of the fact that a meteor strike sent some martian meteorites to earth with those microbes interior them so Earth stored billions of years waiting for that first molecule to style. the thought is declared as Panspermia. If there have been complicated existence types on Mars, fossils may be basic to locate as in assessment to Venus, the exterior is in fact undisturbed. in spite of the fact that it is much extra possibly that purely microbial existence ever stepped forward on Mars.
2016-10-19 02:42:13
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answered by shine 4
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There has to be another planet in Cosmos like Earth. Now for joke: Did you hear about new sci-fy book on Mars called Planet of the Bushes.
2006-10-09 11:44:53
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answered by Mister2-15-2 7
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well,it might be.i heard about a new life in the planets jupiter and mars.we'll be dead anyway.
2006-10-09 12:16:07
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answered by pinkygirl m 3
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i don't think so. Jupiter and Mars has poisinous gasses that we cannot breathe.
2006-10-09 12:44:16
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answered by Aaron 3
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Try your question again later.
2006-10-09 11:39:29
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answered by Anonymous
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