Interesting ... I have always thought of the two gas giants as being too hostile and dynamic for life to evolve and take root - not to say that it isn't possible.
Yes - the Eurpoa mission ... very intriguing and exciting prospects for the search for life there. That mission is so far down the road - I hope it actually happens. It even excites me to think of how life has evolved in Lake Vostok. Have you heard if the test probe for this is being built yet or is it still in the planning stages?
- Greg
PS: "Sci Am" ? Magazine?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Davis
To: CF-Community
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn!
I'm hyped as well - Sci Am did a great overview of the project goals last
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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