Possible Life on Jupiter's Moon

"The fascinating idea that there might be life on Europa, beneath ice-covered oceans kept liquid by the same Jovian tidal forces that heat Io, was first proposed by Richard C. Hoagland in the magazine Star & Sky ( The Europa Enigma,' January, 1980).

Currently, Richard C. Hoagland is founder and principle investigator of a highly controversial independent space research and NASA watchdog constituency group, called "The Enterprise Mission." The Enterprise Mission (www.enterprisemission.com) is presently analyzing a wide variety of historical NASA data, concerning potential extraterrestrial life -- including the new information coming from Europa.

A proposal that a current liquid ocean, containing possibly highly exotic alien LIFE FORMS, might be confirmed within the next few weeks by NASA's current Galileo mission -- is actually an original idea extensively researched and published 17 years ago (in 1980) by independent space researcher, Richard C. Hoagland. Writing in acknowledgment of Hoagland's highly original "Europa Concept," well-known space pioneer and inventor of the communications satellite, Arthur C. Clarke, noted in 1982 in his sequel to the famed "2001".

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On March 21 of this year, "The Enterprise Mission," led by Hoagland, held a major news conference in Washington D.C., presenting 30+ years of NASA photographic evidence, through a panel of outside experts, attesting to NASA's "less than forthcoming attitude" regarding full disclosure of space data relating to potential extraterrestrial life forms.

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"Near the rift systems that lie along divisions between plates in our planet's crust, molten magma wells up, creating warm water vents ...producing one of the most fertile crucibles for living organisms known on Earth... about four times greater than in productive surface ocean waters..."Europa's ocean, according to the line of reasoning in this article, potentially has all the ingredients to permit the existence of similar internally nurtured oases of life. Only further exploration -- on both Europa and Earth -- will tell us if there are two life-bearing worlds in the solar system..."