Sunday, December 18, 2011

NASA Planning for Possible Landings on Europa

NASA Planning for Possible Landings on Europa:



Credit: NASA/Ted Stryk



All these worlds are yours except Europa

Attempt no landing there

Use them together use them in peace 


Despite that famous cryptic warning in the film 2010: The Year We Make Contact, NASA is planning for a possible attempted landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa. This is a mission that many people have been hoping for, since Europa is believed to have a liquid water ocean beneath the icy surface (as well as lakes within the surface crust itself), making it a prime location in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. Two landers are being proposed which would launch in 2020 and land about six years later.


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