For explorers searching for life beyond Earth, the siren song of Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, trills sweetly. “Europa has the best chance of having life there today,” said Britney Schmidt, who studies the moon at the University of Texas at Austin. Astrobiologists think so because NASA’s Galileo probe found strong evidence for a deep, briny ocean covering the entire moon deep under the icy surface. Read full article >>
Jupiter’s Moon Europa: Lake Theory Boosts Hopes For Life
Brian Vastag, Washington Post
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 11:33am
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