Maybe the plants are green for a totally different,
alien reason.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 1:56
AM
Subject: Re: Images of Europan Life
I can buy parallel evolution producing similar
shapes of
creatures. But the plants being green
strikes me as a particularly
Earth-born conceit.
Even if the ice wasn't kilometers thick, I
doubt
enough sunlight reaches Europa to make photo-
synthesis via
chlorophyll a useful process...
--- LARRY KLAES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> IMAGE DESCRIPTION:
>
> In
the future, life will
> be discovered on Jupiter's moon Europa.
>
> After a trip through interplanetary space,
> a delivery probe
(upper left) will
> penetrate Europa's icy surface and release
>
a camera probe (center) into the subsurface
> ocean.
>
>
Heat, generated within the moon from Jupiter's
> gravitational forces,
allows life to flourish.
>
> Jellyfish-like creatures float
within a
> a current of small bubbles. Two plant-like
>
stalks can be seen in the middle-left. A
> shelled creature sits on the
sea floor
> on the bottom left.
>
> The delivery and camera
probes are based on
> actual NASA designs.
>
>
>
http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2003-12-31/europa.jpg<http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2003-12-31/europa.jpg>
>
>
>
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