Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
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Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#2It's not too much of a surprise, both elements that go into water are plentiful and not particularly heavy, and both want to bind to something.
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#3It's not too much of a surprise, both elements that go into water are plentiful and not particularly heavy, and both want to bind to something.
college kids on spring break in Cancun?
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#4Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#5Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
I thought NASA was already planning for such to go to Europa
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#6Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
For what it's worth, there's quite a decent s-f movie "Europa Report" about a manned mission to the Jupiter's moon.
It avoids most genre cliches, apart from the very ending maybe.
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#7Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
Yes, NASA. "We propose to develop a conceptual design of a submersible autonomous vehicle (submarine) to explore extraterrestrial seas"
http://www.nasa.gov/content/titan-submarine-exploring-the-de...
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#8Has anyone thought much about an (admittedly near impossible) probe to burrow and submarine around in the oceans of some of the juicier Galilean and Saturnian moons?
Yep. Here's a great TED talk by the (lead?) engineer of the project. He has a strong history in the caving community.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_s...
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#9Fascinating!
However, I get the cringes every time an article about space exploration uses those atavistic units like Royal Hangnails (length), Princely Bladders (volume), Regal Farts (speed) and Fornicating Fever (temperature) for measurement. Hasn't the metric system arrived yet on planet USA?
Re: Suddenly, It Seems, Water Is Everywhere in Solar System
#10Fascinating! However, I get the cringes every time an article about space exploration uses those atavistic units like Royal Hangnails (length), Princely Bladders (volume), Regal Farts (speed) and Fornicating Fever (temperature) for measurement. Hasn't the metric system arrived yet on planet USA?
Yes it has! It conquered our soda industry and then gave up.