Extraterrestrial
Searching for life on Europa
By
T.K. RandallFebruary 6, 2010 ·
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Last year NASA and the European Space Agency announced plans for a joint effort to seek out life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
Scientists believe Europa contains a vast liquid ocean beneath an outer crust of ice and that this is the most likely place we will find life outside of the Earth in our solar system.
Discovering life on another planet would change our sense of place in the Universe. And the encounter may be closer than we think, according to a BBC Radio 4 documentary - 2010: Space Odyssey to Europa. Are we alone in the Solar System? In his novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, the sequel to the hugely successful 2001, Arthur C Clarke imagined a manned space mission discovering biological life on one of Jupiter's icy moons, Europa.
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