Cosmic Queries – The Future of the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab with Laurie Leshin
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The Space Laser
Getting through the ice at a place like Europa is really hard because it tends to want to close up on itself. And so you need something that's going to kind of hold open the hole once you've made it. So I don't know if just a single laser pointing down would accomplish this as you're fighting against nature, which just wants to freeze the whole damn thing over. Mm-hmm. You need a perfectly vertical lightsaber. Perfect right there. Just let it keep going down.
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