This Ocean Creature Looks Identical To What NASA Expects To Find On Europa 😱

Added: 2026-06-05

[00:00:00]Europa, Jupiter's moon, beneath 25 km of ice, scientists believe there is an ocean. A dark ocean. No sunlight, extreme pressure, near freezing temperatures, and NASA believes something lives in it. The conditions on Europa's subsurface ocean are nearly identical to the conditions at 900 m depth in Earth's ocean, where the blood-belly comb jelly drifts. No sunlight, extreme pressure, complete darkness, [music] and life not only survives there, it thrives. It glows, it hunts, it reproduces, without any of the conditions we once believed were necessary for life. NASA's Europa Clipper mission, launched in 2024, is specifically searching for bioluminescent signatures, light produced by living organisms in total darkness, [music] exactly what the comb jelly produces. Scientists are using deep-sea bioluminescent creatures as the biological template for what alien life might look like. The most alien thing in our ocean is the model for what we expect to find beyond Earth. It was here the whole time, hiding in the dark, glowing, waiting to be understood.