> [Original Message]
> From: Bruce Moomaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Icepick Europa Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 2/26/2001 9:26:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Europa submersible hypothetical
> Well, it would probaly be pretty stinky -- although one thing made
painfully
> clear at the Ames "Europa Focus Group" I attended is that we have no
really
> good data whatsoever about what kind of materials may be mixed with the
> water. The only conclusion that could be reached is that there are a lot
of
> sulfur compounds -- sulfuric acid, elemental sulfur and/or sulfate salts.
> In fact, Europa's water may well be so salty that the serious possibility
> was raised that a Europa Cryobot, in the process of melting its way
through
> even a few meters of ice, would find itself solidly encased in
crystallized
> salts -- making a mechanical drill in the nose an equal necessity.
>
> Bruce Moomaw
I've been contemplating this off and on again, and had considered some
means of using electrolysis as a means to prevent this, but I hadn't really
come up with a good design yet.
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