Sunday, March 8, 2009

Comparing Jupiter’s Moon Europe to our Moon

Is there life under the ice of Europe? This premise and the observations and characteristics for Europa are tentalizing. Ice covered, there are cracks with orange-red coloration with the cracks. Is there seas under the ice? Other areas on Earth have life in inhospitable conditions? Maybe on Europe too?

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

3/8/2009
(if not this date go to this link/website and then go to archives link which is on the APOD page lower portion)

A mission to Europa is being planned that would arrive at Europa in 2020. So it is a long way off and so is paying for the billions of dollars for this mission. But for now we can learn more about Europa and its tentalizing features at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)