What is even the benefit of being physically located right next to Jupiter, if you have to stay enclosed in 10 meters of ice at all times? Sure, you have an hou

What is even the benefit of being physically located right next to Jupiter, if you have to stay enclosed in 10 meters of ice at all times? Sure, you have an hour lag or so to communicate from Earth, but that seems easier to solve than all the problems of shipping humans around.