The goal of this meeting is to foster cooperation between the oceanographic and planetary science communities for the exploration of ocean worlds and to test ideas and models for the emergence of life.
Ocean worlds hold the greatest potential in humanity’s search for extant life as well as a second, independent origin of life in the solar system beyond Earth. Comparative oceanography of conditions on Earth, Europa, Enceladus, Titan, and elsewhere will likely also spark new discoveries and insights that inform our search for Earth-like worlds among the rapidly growing list of exoplanets.
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