issue if anybody's interested.
As for life, I'm hopeful - but I doubt this mission will be able to find
anything (and that anything it might find will be inconclusive).
Personally I'd consider Saturn itself (or, more likely, Jupiter) to be a
more likely place: massive amounts of liquid water under the cloud layers,
energy from the planet's immense internal heat sources and lightning. oh,
yeah - I'd wager there are some very interesting microbes down there. ;^)
I'm holding out most hope however for the eventual (you know they've got to
try!) ice-breaker mission(s) to Eurpoa. the work they're doing/planning for
Lake Vostok makes for great reading.
A close friend of mine was an engineer on the Apollo project - so we have
discussions about this often. ;^)
Jim Davis
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