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NASA will look for traces of life on Europe, Jupiter's moon |
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Monday, 12 December 2011 10:28 |
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NASA representative Kevin Hand said, that NASA is developing a plan to send of two robotic probes on Jupiter's moon- the Europe, for search of traces of
extraterrestrial life. It is assumed, that the automatic probes will be sent to Jupiter's moon in 2020 and robotic probes will land on the surface of Europe in 2026.
On robotic probes will be video and photo cameras and equipment for the detection of organic compounds. The Jupiter's moon Europa by many scientists
regarded as the first candidate for the existence of biological life, as all the surface of Europe is covered with huge ice shell, under which located the ocean of
liquid water. In addition, still do not clear the mechanism of ice cracks on Europa's surface and their causes, as has been observed, that some cracks are
remarkably regular geometric shape, resembling the form of pipes, which led some scientists to the fantastic assumptions as to the existence of Europe's
advanced civilization, and that the whole of Europe is a single living organism.
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