Word: galileo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confirmation of year-old evidence that there is a dusting of polar ice on the moon--ice that could help a 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...
...This year the Pope has formally apologized for many, many things, including Galileo and the Inquisition," Landry said in a telephone interview...
...because organic matter alone does not provide enough evidence of life, Thomas B. McCord, planetary scientist and co-investigator on the Galileo space-craft instrument team, is researching Europa to learn more about the moon...
Although scientists do not see Callisto as a possible source of life, the Galileo Project focuses on further study of the moon...