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The article states that Ganymede is being looked at as a 'potential habitat', but, cold of space aside, what about the 'plasma' interactions and the giant magnetic field of Jupiter?
1 posted on 07/27/2021 1:33:48 AM PDT by blueplum
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I’ve heard that Jupiter’s radiation belts make above surface habitation of all but the outermost of its large Galilean moons (Callisto) unlikely. Of course with no atmosphere and sub-freezing temperature, the surface of Ganymede doesn’t exactly offer the country life anyway.


2 posted on 07/27/2021 2:07:42 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Water found on Uranus could be troublesome.


3 posted on 07/27/2021 2:53:28 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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