Data from the Galileo space probe suggests there’s an ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa, which is Earth-like and could harbor life. The moon’s icy crust is relatively thin, with cracks and vents, which would allow gases, heat and organic matter to reach water underneath. This is same situation that probably exists on Mars.

Europa?s ocean may be like the icy bodies of water on Earth, such as the Arctic Ocean, which is our smallest ocean and occupies the area around the North Pole. It?s exposed to air and heat through its cracking and melting ice.
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The German TV network ZDF has made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein and they think he has at least three doubles. Working with a coroner, they looked at photographs and film clips of Saddam and used facial recognition technology to determine which ones were really Saddam and which were his stand-ins. “In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear,” says coroner Dieter Buhmann. “He himself has not been seen again.”

A former Iraq intelligence official has described how he recruited doubles for Saddam.”It was a practice started for security reasons because Saddam traveled a lot at the time and had contact with the public,” he says.
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