The interaction between liquid water and a rocky seafloor on the largest moon in our solar system may support primitive life, Nasa has revealed. A study has shown Jupiter's moon, Ganymede, may have a thick ocean stacked between a top and bottom layer of ice, which astronomers have described as a "club sandwich". For example, the theory that life on Earth began in ancient ocean vents. Ganymede's rocky sea bottom was thought to be coated with ice, not liquid, which would not support life.
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