To find out more about these worlds and their hidden oceans, two ambitious voyages are now taking shape. About a decade from now, if all goes to plan, the first mission will send a pair of probes to explore Jupiter's satellites. They will concentrate on giant Ganymede and pale Europa, gauging the depths of the oceans that almost certainly lie within them.
A few years later, an even more audacious mission will head towards Saturn to sniff the polar sea spray of its snow-white moon Enceladus. It will also visit Titan, which has perhaps the most astonishing extraterrestrial landscape in our solar system. To explore this giant moon, the spacecraft will send out two seemingly antique contraptions: a hot-air balloon to fly over the deserts and mountains, and a boat that will float on a sea of liquid hydrocarbons...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427331.000-extraterrestrial-rafting-hunt...
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Life can flourish in even some of the toughest conditions known to exist, but intelligent life needs certain conditions. I'm certain we will find life on some of these extraterrestrial satellites but it will be a long time until we find intelligent beings.
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- FishaHouse777
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Our barbaric asses had better think twice before looking for life on other worlds. We don't have such a great record at cherishing life....We tend to destroy it more often then not. Our luck, we'll kill something off world, that has the ability to fight the f@ck back!
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Just don't bring something back that's going to take over our cozy little planet...
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- schellingjr
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What 's the science say about it .we all know how it is critical .
there may many way of it.
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- Manish_Bunty
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We act like life in other parts of the universe would be fair and compassionat just for the mere reason they are suposedly more civilized. For inteligence to start you have to have a fairly harsh envirnment to overcome. Make no mistake anouther life form that is smarter than we are wil also be more aggressive and probably a lot creuler.
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Two things interest me most about science. The small and mysterious Atom, and the Giant and mysterious Universe.
Both we know almost nothing about.
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- Revelation_Machine
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