Word: europa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will that the collection remain exactly as it was originally curated; however, there are occasional rotating exhibitions of contemporary artwork. Currently on display: "Threads of Dissent" The museum also offers concerts on Saturdays and Sundays at 1:30. Not to be missed: Titian's deservedly famous "Rape of Europa...
...that old moon river again. Not content with finding ice on our very own Luna, scientists unveiled evidence in the journal Nature Thursday of entire underground oceans on no less than two of Jupiter's moons. Europa and Callisto were long suspected to bear icy crusts, but at a decidely chilly 483 million miles from the Sun, nobody expected these rocks to be anywhere near tropical enough for the liquid stuff. "If we find out four and a half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt...
...community of astronauts survive. Almost lost in the excitement was news from a far more distant and far wetter world. According to the crispest images yet from the Galileo Jupiter probe, there is more reason than ever to think that beneath the icy skin of the Jovian moon Europa there lies a warm, amniotic sea in which heat, moisture and organic chemicals may have already allowed life to take hold...
...evidence comes from a Europa flyby in which Galileo barnstormed the little moon at an altitude of just a few hundred miles. Soaring over a region known as the Conamara Chaos, the spacecraft photographed an area in which the moon's thin skin of ice appears to have buckled as a result of turbulent water moving just beneath the frozen crust. The crumpling gave the ice a washboard topography made up of a series of parallel cliffs, each the size of Mount Rushmore. Elsewhere the spacecraft spotted bright crustal fractures crisscrossing older, darker ones, suggesting that the ice is being...
Galileo has completed its original planned tour of the Jovian system and is on a two-year extended mission to study several of Jupiter's moons. Six other flybys of Europa are scheduled before the sturdy spacecraft, which left Earth almost nine years ago, at last shuts down in December 1999. On one pass, Galileo will observe Europa from an angle that will allow scientists to look for telltale volcanic plumes rising from its edge. If found, they'll indicate that the moon is warmer than it seems--and an even likelier incubator for extraterrestrial life...