13 MAY 2013 by ideonexus
Look for the Improbable in Extraterrestrial Life
To land a spacecraft on Europa, with the heavy equipment needed to penetrate the ice and explore the ocean directly, would be a formidable undertaking. A direct search for life in Europa's ocean would today be prohibitively expensive. But just as asteroid and comet impacts on Mars have given us an easier way to look for evidence of life on that planet, impacts on Europa give us an easier way to look for evidence of life there. Every time a major impact occurs on Europa, a vast quantity of wat...Folksonomies: exploration extraterrestrials
Folksonomies: exploration extraterrestrials
We should look for freeze-dried live ejected from impacts with Europa rather than trying to send probes into the ice.