The 5 Best Places To Find Life In The Solar System

The possibility of discovering life beyond Earth has never been greater. We are officially now living in the James Webb era. Even Though James Webb might look for life in atmospheres of exoplanets, life might actually occur much closer to our home. And no it is not going to be little green men flying through space and invading our planet but more likely microbes or bacterial life. You might be wondering where we might find such life in our own solar system? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. In this video, we are going to talk about 5 best places in our solar system where we might find extraterrestrial life.
The first question that might come to your mind would be, Where are we going to find such microbial life in our solar system?
Number 5-) Venus
Venus's surface temperatures are hot enough to melt lead, and its surface pressures are more than 80 times higher than on Earth. Still, Venus might host life!
4-) Enceladus
Enceladus, Saturn's sixth largest moon, is one of the most intriguing places in our solar system. Covered in clean ice, it is one of the most reflective bodies in the solar system.
3-) Titan
Scientists have long been intrigued by the possibility of life on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
2-) Mars
The search for life on Mars has been a high priority for planetary scientists since the 1950s.
1-) Europa
Europa, the smallest of Jupiter's Galilean moons and somewhat smaller than Earth's moon, may be missed in favor of the more spectacular moons on this list. This inconspicuous moon, however, has the smoothest solid surface of any known object in the whole Solar System, hinting at the possibility of a massive, underground ocean of liquid water. Europa is covered by a thick shell of ice, which hides a huge subsurface ocean

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:15 Venus
03:54 Enceladus
05:25 Titan
07:12 Mars
09:00 Europa

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[Teddmax]

Titans atmosphere makes it logical. Pressure similar to earth, and the atmosphere protects from radiation. All you would need is a thermal suit with a breather to live on Titan, because unlike on Mars, deadly solar radiation is filtered out

[dorderre]

Europa definitely sounds interesting, but Jupiter surrounds itself with a terribly strong radiation field - is Europa far enough outside of it to not be affected?

[MindMan]

Titan could pass as a planet, but because it orbits a planet it is considered a "moon" ..

[Andrewbert]

Sorry but how much research was done for this? The discovery of phosphine was in 2020 and has since been proven almost completely that there's no phosphine, not just that phosphine doesn't mean there's probably not life. It took me 3 seconds to find this information.

"The latest papers pretty clearly show that there is no sign of the gas, says Ignas Snellen, an astronomer at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands who has published a different critique of the phosphine claim4. “This makes the whole debate about phosphine, and possibly life in the atmosphere of Venus, quite irrelevant.”"

From the Nature article that comes up when you search "phosphine Venus"

It's almost like you read one of the many articles that came out in 2021 debunking the presence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus and just assumed "oh this was published in 2021, the discovery must have also been in 2021" and just threw "phosphine was discovered last year" in a video published in 2022. It's lazy and disingenuous. There's almost no debate at this point, if you find overwhelming evidence that contradicts a point you want to make in a video you don't just plug it in anyway and go "oh well there's still some debate".

[RHB]

Was that guy in a fist fight with an alien?? 😂

[sziklamester]

At the moment the few major moons and the two largest planets beyond Earth can be hosts of life but I would not skip the other moons and even asteroids. We need basically check all the places and possibilities to confirm theories. Venus would be the best place if we could stabilizie it's rotation, reduce the atmosphere and somehow fix the carbon on the planet. Mars is smaller and needs some solar shielding so in millions of years it could remake it's atmosphere but needs some additional things like magnetic field, increase mass and somehow make a larger moon for it. Ceres would be a nice moon of Mars with the right size but we currently not able to move bodies on that scale.

My bet is Callisto or Ganymede because there are some chances to have a sub surface ocean and these moons have some tidal affects from their host planet so possible their interior will be / kept heat enough to permit liquid water. Fun thing there is plentiful water in the universe.

[ernestimken]

5: earth 4: earth 3: earth 2: earth 1: earth. Nowhere else.

[shannonalaminski]

Why do we continue wasting our time looking for life? We must establish life on other worlds.

[UtraVioletDreams]

Well if life is found on one of the other planets. Then this would greatly increase the chance life also exist outside our solar system. If it would be intelligent? That chance is still very small. Since we are the only species on our planet with greater awareness. So one over... how many exactly?

[PeterSwinkels]

Which other planet has the highest chance of hosting life in our solar system? Perhaps none right now, but given the sun will change over time earth could become uninhabitable while other planets or moons further out may actually become habitable.

[microschandran]

I vote for Europa with all the right ingredients. Mars is a close second, underground ofcourse. Enceladeus third with its water jets.

[Thenineoh]

They should send a probe into the clouds of venus, it's also the closest planet so it'll be the easiest to study

[terrytibbs]

It’s virtually everywhere, wait and see

[fernandochaves]

My vote is for Titan. I don't have any scientific background so i'm just giving an opinion. Seems the right place with the right conditions. Water as solvent can be replaced with other elements (ammonia?). Nice post, as always..

(A video about the chances of one of the big objects of the Asteroid Belt being throwed to Earth by collision, or gravitational influence of the Sun or Jupiter, would be interesting..)

[groveri]

even the smallest forms of life can exist anywhere in the universe, the conditions just have to be right...

[Some_Cat_]

I'd say Enceladus and Europa have the best chance followed by Venus and Titan. Mars' atmosphere seems too thin to me, even for underground life. In fact I'm tempted to say Mars has never had the right conditions for long enough to ever have had life on it.

[utkuerkan]

Hi, I think Mars 1st choice then; Titan, Encaladus, Europa, Venus etc. All the best to this channel & lets ambition/hope life would be multi planetary one day. Everyone treated equally without discrimination and high prosperity, equal wealth distribution in life & among humanity is crucial. :-)

[Cargren]

I think so titan can be a place where we can find microorganisms

[whyisthissodifficult]

If you we have the tech to to do all these crazy things mentioned in the comments, we have the tech to fix earth and manage