Sunday, March 08, 2009

APOD: 2009 March 8 - Gibbous Europa

Spectacular image of the Jovian moon Europa
"Evidence and images from the Galileo spacecraft, indicated that liquid oceans might exist below the icy surface. To test speculation that these seas hold life, ESA and NASA have together started preliminary development of the Europa Jupiter System Mission , a spacecraft proposed to better study Europa. If the surface ice is thin enough, a future mission might drop hydrobots to burrow into the oceans and search for life."

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