With Stars, it is...
Fractally Full!
Posted on 02/11/2017 8:09:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
Stay away from Europa? No way. It’s just too fascinating a place with its jigsaw-puzzle ice sheets, crisscross valleys, miles of ice on top and a warm, salty ocean below. The movie was prescient — if you’re going to search for life elsewhere in the solar system, Europa’s one of the best candidates.
While we’ve sent spacecraft to photograph and study the icy moon during orbital flybys, no lander has yet to touch the surface. That may change soon. In early 2016, in response to a congressional directive, NASA’s Planetary Science Division began a pre-Phase A study to assess the science value and engineering design of a future Europa lander mission. In June 2016, NASA convened a 21-member team of scientists for the Science Definition Team (SDT). The team put together set of science objectives and measurements for the mission concept and submitted the report to NASA on Feb. 7.
(Excerpt) Read more at universetoday.com ...
With Stars, it is...
Fractally Full!
Neat article!
all these worlds are your except europa. attempt no landings there
“Non-Sequitur”
shut up!
We’ll be the Pirate Twins again....
Go here select Target (in this case Europa) and press/click Select. The top most item is PIA21431: Highest-resolution Europa Image & Mosaic from Galileo. The best image is the .tif at 1.714M - Solid State Imaging: 1338 x 2619 pixels (w x h)
#1 I wish that NASA would use color cameras!!.... : )
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