Thursday, November 17, 2011

Water On Europa? Possibly

In an article in Nature, a University of Texas at Austin report employs some fascinating Science to support the theory that there are great lakes beneath the icy shell of the moon Europa, orbiting distant Jupiter. Now the question is, can we send a spacecraft there with adequate equipment to check it out?

Of course, there's also Arthur C. Clarke's warning from 2010: Odyssey Two to consider - "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE." Hmmm.

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