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The article has nothing to do with human habitability. The potential is that there could be microbes found on a planet other than Earth for the first time.

From the article:

"The amount of molecular hydrogen we detected is high enough to support microbes similar to those that live near hydrothermal vents on Earth," said SwRI's Dr. Christopher Glein, a co-author on the paper and a pioneer of extraterrestrial chemical oceanography.




The link was switched to phys.org. Previous source was scientifically illiterate.




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