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Solar System
Jupiter
Europa
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Targeting Europa
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| Topic: Europa |
03/02/07 |
| Jupiter's moon Europa could harbor a subsurface ocean and maybe even life, so some researchers feel it should be a primary target of NASA's next 'flagship' mission to the outer solar system. |
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The Road to Europa
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| Topic: Europa |
02/14/07 |
| Scientists are currently discussing the benefits of studying each of Jupiter's four large moons with a dedicated mission. In a recent talk to the American Geophysical Union, the case was made for visiting Europa in order to learn more about the moon's ocean and possibly the origins of life. |
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Europa on Earth
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| Topic: Europa |
09/13/06 |
| This summer, a science team set out on a two-week expedition of Earth's own little version of Jupiter's moon Europa -- the Borup Fiord Pass at Ellesmere Island, a place hidden high above the rest of the world in the Canadian High Arctic. |
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Hitting Europa Hard
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| Topic: Europa |
05/01/06 |
| Europa remains a tantalizing target for astrobiologists –- but what would be the best way to investigate the mysterious moon? In this interview, Karl Hibbitts describes a proposed hyper-velocity impactor that would smack right into Europa´s outer ice shell. |
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Blonde Europa
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| Topic: Europa |
03/31/06 |
| Some may be surprised to learn that bleach-blondes and the enabler of life elsewhere in our solar system have something in common. And, no, it's not intelligence. It is, in fact, hydrogen peroxide. |
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The Lure of Europa
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| Topic: Europa |
09/01/05 |
| Jupiter's moon Europa is thought to be one of the most likely abodes for microscopic life in our solar system. The discovery that Europa most likely has a cold, salty ocean beneath its frozen icy crust has put Europa on the short list of objects in our solar system that astrobiologists would like to study further. |
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Europa: Living World or Frozen Wasteland?
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| Topic: Europa |
04/05/04 |
| Within our solar system, Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of potentially habitable worlds. It's a bizarre place, believed to contain a globe-spanning ocean covered by a thick layer of ice, and to be pummeled by intense radiation from Jupiter's magnetosphere. |
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Is Europa Corrosive?
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| Topic: Europa |
02/19/04 |
| Scientists planning the Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter met recently to discuss the prospects for finding life on Jupiter's moon, Europa. This icy world however may have enough sulfuric acid mixed in to qualify as a good battery-- but a poor prospect for microbial life as we know it today. |
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Europa: Frozen Ocean in Motion
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| Topic: Europa |
11/26/03 |
| Few places in our solar system can offer more intriguing conditions for primitive life than Jupiter's moon Europa. Covered by a vast ice-sheet, Europa cloaks its subterranean ocean but evidence of a briny, electrically-conductive sea may provide at least two of the conditions needed for life: liquid water and an energy source. |
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Europa and Undersea Divers
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| Topic: Europa |
11/18/03 |
| From working on Europa research to diving the Atlantic for vent microbes, the SETI Institute's Kevin Hand is getting out there. His handiwork recently was contributed to the exploration voyage of James Cameron, while the Academy Award director hunted for extreme lifeforms. |
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