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Searching for life on Europa

By T.K. Randall
February 6, 2010 · Comment icon 5 comments

Image Credit: NASA
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.


Source: BBC News | Comments (5)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by 747400 14 years ago
Well, there's plenty of them to choose from, and not just Jupiter; Saturn, Neptune, the rude one, etc. Perhaps they could be mini-solar systems in their own right, with the planets they orbit round acting as suns. That would compensate for the distance from the actual sun.
Comment icon #2 Posted by DONTEATUS 14 years ago
Sir Arthur C.Clark just may of been ET ? Just a guess but a brilliant man Indeed! I still get Goose bumps reading his Book`s justDONTEATUS
Comment icon #3 Posted by thefinalfrontier 14 years ago
Sir Arthur C.Clark just may of been ET ? Just a guess but a brilliant man Indeed! I still get Goose bumps reading his Book`s justDONTEATUS Me to D, One of my Clark favs. was Summertime On Icarus, That was a great book to read, As to the OP I would not be one bit surprised if there were some type of algea or microbal lifeforms on Europa, Science teams have been experimenting with ways to penetrate the thick ice and then act as a submerine once its down in the water, Chances are you and me will not see the day they finally do make a mission to check for this life but im happy knowing that man wi... [More]
Comment icon #4 Posted by calarrain 13 years ago
I recomend fascinating novel Mision Jupiter Europa Libros en red. I recomend fascinating novel Mision Jupiter Europa Libros en red.
Comment icon #5 Posted by danielost 13 years ago
problem is we are looking for life like us. but even here on earth we are finding life forms that may look like us but they dont live like us. what is to say there arent life forms totally alien to what we are looking for. the problem is man is too closed minded to think outside of the box. i mean man as a group not individuals. i personally believe that the earth itself is alive. i also think we might be living inside a living cell.


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