Europa Clipper is NASA’s mission to explore one of Jupiter’s four large Galilean satellites. Europa has an icy outer crust that covers an ocean world. It holds twice as much water as Earth’s oceans. So, Scientists want to know more about the habitability – the ability for some form of live to exist – on this large moon.
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I love it when real, groundbreaking space-science gets on its way without a hitch.
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The artists’ conception of Europa looks like it was copied from a cross section diagram of skin, complete with acne getting ready to erupt.
6 years from now:
We’ve found life on Europa!
-holy shit! Like little green men or something?
No. No. Nothing like that.
-plant life? I can’t wait until they clone that so I can smoke it!
No. No. Not plants either. You see, it’s just covered in zits, giant living zits. That’s it. It’s the only form of life there.
-gross
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