With NASA slated to explore Jupiter's moon Europa sometime in the next decade, researchers are increasingly confident that the ocean on the celestial satellite "could be habitable.".

Speaking at the 2020 Goldschmidt Conference earlier this month, NASA researchers said they have developed a model that shows Europa, the sixth largest moon in the Solar System, could support life.

The surface temperature on Europa is exceptionally cold as well, approximately -260 degrees Fahrenheit at the equator and -370 degrees Fahrenheit at the poles, according to Space.com.

OCEAN ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA HAS TABLE SALT, JUST LIKE EARTH'S SEAS.

Voyager 2 snapped this image of Jupiter's moon Europa during the spacecraft's 1979 flyby.

The Europa Clipper, which could launch as soon as 2023 but has a baseline commitment of a "launch readiness date by 2025," will have a mass spectrometer on the craft, used to determine the mass of ions in an atom

The mission for the solar-powered Clipper is expected to cost around $4 billion, according to NASA. The space agency has previously said the purpose of the mission will be to investigate whether Europa, the sixth-largest of Jupiter's 79 known moons, "could harbor conditions suitable for life, honing our insights into astrobiology."

In December 2019, a study suggested that if there is life on Europa, it would be indigenous to the moon and not related to humans