It looks like the pool of water is on its dark/starlit side, so the "eye" I suspect is an ocean of ice, or at least, very cold.
New Scientist: Is first life-friendly exoplanet an "eyeball"?
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Someone needs to break the news to Captain Kirk!
Apparently, "zebrafish embryos raised in microgravity have been shown to develop cranial defects." And, 16 female mice aboard STS 131 experienced "shrunken ovaries, dying ovarian follicles and down-regulated oestrogen genes. Their reproductive systems [research biologist Joseph Tash states] 'had shut down.'" (article)
Bummer! Doesn't sound like Bones McCoy could save them.
Just in the act of (ahem) procreation, it would take quite a contraption to overcome Newton's Laws of Motion in zero gravity!
At the risk of being too salacious, I'll leave the subject there...
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