In a message dated 7-31-01 12:07:57 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<<Indeed, a JPL Workshop in 1997 concluded that even if Europa
has no ocean at all now, it's still of almost equally great biological
interest because it may very well have had one in its early days, during
which life could have evolved -- life whose remains would be still be frozen
in the near-surface ice. (Richard Greenberg also indicated that he's
starting to think along my line, in an abstract at the recent Outer Planets
Exploration Workshop.) Comments, anyone?>>
In general, I agree with you. I believe that Europa Orbiter was conceived as
a low cost "precursor" mission to the ones that might actually search for
evidence of life on Europa. Given >$1B, it seems to be time to re-think what
the first mission to Europa is.
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