More Confirmation of Water on Europa

Mr_Ceebs writes to us with an interesting story from the BBC about Galileo's latest experiments. By flying within 220 miles of the surface, and using a magnometer, the probe found results that would be congruent with the prescence of a large, salty ocean beneath the ice on Europa. Arthur C. Clarke anyone?

Similarity among Jupiter's moons?

[jetfire]

There appears to be some speculation as to if this is also occuring on some of the other moons of Jupiter. According to an article [nasa.gov] off NASA's galileo page, they indicate that Ganymede will also be looked at

FYI, the Nasa Galileo homepage is http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ [nasa.gov]

Sorry, but I only drink bottled H2O on travel.

[Cy Guy]

Vacations are just too expensive to risk getting sick. It's not that our water is better than theirs, its just my stomach isn't used to the fauna naturally occuring in 'foreign' water.. Many travellers from abroad get sick when they first drink US water.

Though I suppose if you found fauna in the water on Europa, you'd be too excited too care.

Link to additional article...

[FalconRed]

There's an unsuprisingly similar article at CNN [cnn.com], for anyone who cares to read it.

Re:Similarity among Jupiter's moons?

[apsmith]

The others have at least partly rocky surfaces though, don't they? I thought Europa was the only one that had the smooth (except where cracked) ice cover.