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Ice Station Europa

from Satellites by Shards Of Reason

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Europa - if you're looking in our solar system for extra-terrestial life-forms, that's where the action is, according to the vast swathe of scientific opinion. This moon of Jupiter has a scarred covering of ice over a vast ocean. Due to its proximity to the huge gravitational pull of Jupiter, it's a fair bet that the ocean is warm enough to support life. If the planned mission to land and drill through the ice to the ocean goes ahead in 2020, we'll know for sure.

Arthur C. Clarke made much of this potential for life in his book "2010", where the forces who created humanity in "2001: A Space Odyssey" warn off exploring humans in order to nurture the new life on Europa.

In the book, the joint Russian-American expedition to Jupiter is overtaken by the Chinese, who race ahead of them to Europa with a water-powered ship, with the plan of landing, drilling down, refilling their fuel tanks and then heading home.

They do indeed land on Europa, but their powerful arc-lights attract some enormous, blundering, inquisitive creature from the depths, which smashes through the ice and consigns them all to a remote, icy death.

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from Satellites, released November 7, 2010

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