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NASA To Hold Media Call on Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa
- flexie 10y agoAdditional material on the plumes found: http://www.nasa.gov/europa-activity http://www.nasa.gov/europa-activity
- andrewstuart2 10y ago> ... surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa Not that it's not exciting, but the title of the post and page leave a little wiggle room that certainly made me think "evidence of life?"
- svachalek 10y agoIt's certainly worded in a way that allows for the possibility that they are hinting at evidence of life without giving it away. Based on NASA's recent record though, it's not at all beyond them to try to get a little extra press by hinting at a bigger discovery than they actually have. My money's on some interesting tectonic action but wouldn't an oxygen atmosphere be something!
- batbomb 10y agoMost the time it's evidence that there might be evidence of life.
- XorNot 10y agoThis is kind of big: sampling Europa's ocean from space would give us a very easy way to get a lot of data
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoJuno is there - with a camera. I look forward to better local pictures!
- Rooster61 10y agoYeah, but it's in a highly eccentric polar orbit very specialized for taking photos of Jupiter, not its moons. I doubt it will get much decent footage of Europa, if any.
- avar 10y agoDon't get your hopes up. NASA has a long history of pre-teasing these announcements, and then it turns out to be some announcement that while marginally interesting scientifically, is really no big deal as a news story. E.g. last year they pre-announced that they were going to make some big announcement about Mars, and everyone was thinking "evidence of life?". And it turned out to be that they'd just found evidence for brine flowing on the surface in some cases[1]. While that was certainly interesting in itself if you follow what's going on on Mars, it was just an incremental addition to the knowledge we already had about water on Mars. My prediction is that this Europa announcement is going to be something similarly mundane. 1. http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-tha...
- MarkPNeyer 10y agoalways relevant: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-11-30 http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-11-30
- otto_ortega 10y agoI think deep down, we all know it is going to unwrap that way, but still want to hope it's something beyond that.
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- chriskanan 10y agoYes, I agree that this announcement seemed over hyped by the media, like just about every NASA pre-tease announcement. The announcement about Europa today is this: Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes. Read more here: http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-spots-possible-water-plumes-erupting-on-jupiters-moon-europa http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-spots-possib...
- otto_ortega 10y agoAm I the only one hoping that "evidence of surprising activity" means the plot of "Europa Report" is making its way into reality? (minus the deaths of course...) I seriously believe that if we ever find life in other planes it will be on the form of aquatic creatures not on the form of intelligent life.
- l3m0ndr0p 10y agoAre they tying this announcement with a movie that may be coming out this year? ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
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