Astronomy Picture of the Day -- All the Water on Europa

NASA ^ | May 24, 2012 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

[Credit & Copyright: Kevin Hand (JPL/Caltech), Jack Cook (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), Howard Perlman (USGS)]

[SunkenCiv]

Let me guess -- jokes from "2001: a Space Odyssey".

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[mylife]

Amazing.

[moonshot925]

Does NASA still have a plan to explore the moons of Jupiter?

[wastedyears]

We found water. Now we need to process it to make it drinkable for humans, and there we go, asteroid mining.

[Sea Parrot]

Hmm, I wonder how the ice fishing is there on Europa?

[Secret Agent Man]

I love the new science of today.

Lots of “could of’s” and “if’s” and “assuming”, and then we just write the whole article as if it’s all true.

I ‘spose scientists got to eat too. Too bad most are paid out of taxpayer dollars.

[GraceG]

We should totally attempt a landing there....

[GraceG]

If they keep squeezing the people of earth we will have colonize space like the pilgrims colonized new england....

[Dundee]

....All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there....

[GladesGuru]

Careful what you sink a gaff into!

[magellan]

"Does NASA still have a plan to explore the moons of Jupiter?"

We already did that:

Galileo Spacecraft

[bigheadfred]

Let me guess -- jokes from "2001: a Space Odyssey".

Who has time for 2001 jokes?

How about some space idiocy instead?

Europa posses a deep, global ocean of liquid water beneath a layer of surface ice.

Careful what you sink a gaff into!

Careful what you sink a gaffe into!

Sorry. I don't know what could have possessed me.

[6SJ7]

So if there’s more water on Europa than Earth, can we stop using those damnable ‘water saving’ washing machines which don’t wash clothes?

[MaxMax]

Front loaders don't use that much water and do a better job of cleaning.
I'm waiting for the new Green urine washer that recycles human waste and
saves water at the same time. And is powered by a bicycle.

[jmcenanly]

Enceladus, in orbit around Saturn, has similar amounts of water, not to mention Saturn’s famous rings. There is more water outside the asteroid belt than within it

[SunkenCiv]

If you’re required to use one of those, it’s time to move out of that jurisdiction, or buy a washer somewhere outside it and bring it in.

[SunkenCiv]

[SunkenCiv]

Still, Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids.

[SunkenCiv]

:’D