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Will NASA's Sample Return Answer Mars Life Questions? Need For Comparison With In Situ Search

... committees chose a sample return mission (over the Jupiter Europa Ocean mission), but with the funding available, they could only pay for ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 8 2016 - 5:21am - 0 attachments

No Simple Genetic Test To Separate Earth From Mars Life - Zubrin's Argument Examined

... for good if well used. But I also think that Mars, like Europa and Enceladus, are the three most interesting and most vulnerable places ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 11 2016 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments

Super Positive Outcomes For Enceladus, And Europa - And Sample Return Issues - Video Talks

... a small conference "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life - Europa&Enceladus" in Oxford, summer 2015. It's about the idea that when ... here  The Search for Extraterrestrial Life - Europa&Enceladus .  And this is another talk I prepared but ...

Article - Robert Walker - Mar 7 2016 - 12:04am - 0 attachments

When Machines Can Do Any Job, What Will Humans Do?

... the European Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europa. He is a fellow of the ACM, the American Association for Artificial ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2016 - 11:50am - 0 attachments

Top Solar System Discoveries In 2015

... global salty ocean – placing it with Jupiter’s moon, Europa, as a possible host to an ocean-floor ecosystem. ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 28 2015 - 10:02am - 0 attachments

Why Only Very Young ET Civilizations Will Have Expanding Populations - Opinion Piece

... our own solar system - a non technological civilization in Europa's oceans for instance would be impossible for us to detect, or for them ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 2 2015 - 11:25am - 0 attachments

Maths From An Extra Terrestrial Civilization - What Could It Be Like - And Would We Understand It?

... Suppose that our ETs are dolphins swimming in Europa type ice covered seas. Can't see the external universe, no astronomy - ... live in the oceans beneath the surface of an icy moon like Europa, no idea that the rest of the universe exists, no seasons, nothing ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 16 2015 - 9:27am - 0 attachments

Europa, Jupiter's Cracked And Crinkled Moon

Jupiter's moon Europa is believed to possess a large salty ocean beneath its icy exterior, and ... it might be within the scarred, jumbled areas that make up Europa's so-called "chaos terrain." "We have known for a long time that Europa's fresh icy surface, which is covered with cracks and ridges and ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2015 - 4:30pm - 0 attachments

Could Another (small) Satellite Orbit The International Space Station?

... a planet). If you want to send a spacecraft to orbit Europa, or Ganymede or Enceladus, you'll probably use a retrograde rather than ... This shows an idea for a distant retrograde orbit around Europa in inertial frame (left) and rotating frame centered on Europa (right). ...

Article - Robert Walker - Oct 15 2015 - 12:19pm - 0 attachments

Rhythms From Martian Sands - What Did Our Viking Landers Find in 1976? Astonishingly, We Don't Know

... look for life in the solar system - not just Mars - also Europa, Encladus, Venus, comets, Ceres, some suggest Io even, Titan, Triton ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - Sep 26 2015 - 10:57pm - 0 attachments