A single grain of ice ejected from Jupiter's ocean moon Europa, if captured by NASA's forthcoming Europa Clipper spacecraft, could be enough to reveal evidence of alien life, a new experiment suggests.
"With suitable instrumentation, such as the SUrface Dust Analyzer on NASA's Europa Clipper space probe, it might be easier than we thought to find life, or traces of it, on icy moons," said Frank Postberg of Freie Universität Berlin in a statement. Postberg is a co-author of a new study describing the findings.
