Galilean Satellites as Sites for Incipient Life, and the Earth as its Shelter

TL;DR

This paper explores how Galilean satellites could serve as sites for the origin of life due to their unique electrochemical processes and conditions, offering insights different from Earth's environment.

Contribution

It proposes a novel hypothesis that electrochemical processes on Galilean satellites facilitate life's emergence, contrasting with Earth's traditional assumptions.

Findings

Galilean satellites have conditions conducive to abiogenic organics.

Electrochemical processes could lead to enantiomeric synthesis.

Explosive events create environments for material exchange.

Abstract

Numerous problems connected with an assumption of the life origin on the Earth do not arise on Galilean satellites. Here, in presence of a practically non-salt water and of a great deal (~5-10%) of abiogenic organics, a great diversity of conditions, which are unthinkable for the Earth, were realized more than once. They were caused by global electrochemical processes in the magnetic field presence what could entail an absolute enantiomeric synthesis. The subsequent explosions of the satellites' icy envelopes saturated by the electrolysis products resulted in appearance of hot massive atmospheres and warm deep oceans and ejection of the dirty ice fragments (=comet nuclei), what led to the material exchange with other bodies, etc.