Are You Going to Dig Into the Ice?

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The radiation environment at Jupiter is really harsh and nasty, which is one reason why probably the surface of Europa is not a very habitable environment. So could you have like freeze dried fish right there in those cracks? You can have freeze dried organic based something organic fish. And so even from orbit, we think there is some out guessing going on that we can look for organic molecules and try to understand what's happening there.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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