Juice - The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer

[Harpo]

Ready for launch: the mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons

The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto

www.theguardian.com

Launch of Europe's 1st-ever Jupiter probe is just a week away

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is scheduled to lift off on April 13.

www.space.com

 

[BAYLOR]

If they found life on a place like Europa , that would be cool.

 

[paranoid marvin]

The scientific community have pretty much universally said that life requires water. If that water is on another world, and confirms that life - any form of life - exists or has existed, then it confirms life is not exclusive to Earth. The implications will be as huge as it gets. If there is/has been life here, then the universe must be teeming with it.

 

[AllanR]

Let's look for life in the outer solar system

Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and how we might find it.

www.ted.com

 

[paranoid marvin]

It's life... but not as we know it?

 

[StilLearning]

I took these a few months ago - not much, I've only got a 70mm refractor and am a relative noob to astrophotography, but it makes me think: The first is with a lower exposure to show the cloud belts .

...the second is with a higher exposure to show up a Galilean moon...