>>11593014The next design generation or two of space satelites should be able to read the spectrum of the atmospheres of exoplanets. Biological tracers in the atmosphere should stand out like a sore thumb over what you'd expect to see from strictly geological processes.
On top of that, they're working on a europa mission, and Enceladus has a lot of potential.
You've really got a very very dinky dataset as of right now and it seems a little premature to jump to conclusions.
Assuming we found life in the solar system tomorrow the next question would be is it a completely independent tree of life, or can you deduce some kind of ancestry with life on earth.
If it were to be its own unique type of life then that would mean life happened twice in the same system, which would mean it shouldn't be that rare in the universe.
If it turns out to be a distant relative of earth's life, then that proves panspermia, which has its own implications.
