Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ

Name: Guy Consolmango's 100th Anniversary Debate Video
Uploaded: 2020-04-21T16:36:48-07:00
Duration: 2 min 21 s
Description: This video is part of the online 100th Anniversary celebration of the Shapley - CurtisGreat Debate in astronomy in 1920. The 100th Anniversary Debate website...

Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ
Director: Vatican Observatory
Winner, DPS Carl Sagan Medal (2014)
Co-Author with Fr. Paul Mueller SJ: Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?

How will humanity first discover ET Life?
Best guess: Chemical signature from the interior of an icy moon
Image of water plumes from Enceladus,taken by the NASA/ESA Cassini
mission to Saturn
We have already observed water ejected into space from the
interior of Jupiter�s moon Europa and Saturn�s moon Enceladus.
Biomarkers in this water will be strong evidence of life
in the source oceans underneath the icy moons� crusts.

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