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kchangnyt

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About kchangnyt

Science reporter at The New York Times

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    Comment #9199341

    Yes, NASA is working on Europa Clipper: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/ But that would just make multiple flybys of Europa, not land or tunnel into the water.

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    Comment #9198237

    Yes, these are flowing oceans. On Ganymede, it's an ocean between two layers of ice. On Enceladus, it's water below an icy crust and on top of a rocky core.

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    Comment #9197762

    I'd love to use metric. It'd save a slew of annoyances converting back and forth, and it's the easiest thing to screw up, because no one has an intuitive sense of a millionth of an…