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  2. Surface Processes and Surface-Subsurface Transport on Europa

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  3. Hiding from Jupiter's Radiation



    Researchers as part of NASA’s Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology program are mapping the surfaces of Jupiter’s moons Europa and Ganymede. One goal is to identify ‘dead zones’ where the powerful radiation of Jupiter would likely destroy any interesting organic compounds. The team also hopes to find areas that are possible ‘safe havens’ – where materials expelled from the moons’ subsurface oceans might survive. Such areas could be extremely important sites for future missions to the Jovian system.

    Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]

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  4. Water Vapor Detected on Extrasolar Planet


    An international team of researchers including members of NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory Team have, using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, detected the presence of water vapor on the hot jupiter HD 189733b. Published in this week’s Nature, the study’s primary author, Giovanna Tinetti, was a 2003 NAI Postdoctoral Fellow.

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  5. Jovian Moons


    Jupiter’s four largest moons were discovered by Galileo in 1610. Three of them might hold oceans of liquid water beneath their icy exteriors. Liquid water is a prerequisite for life.

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  6. Without Jupiter, Home Alone


    The giant planet Jupiter swallows up asteroids and comets, or flings them into space. Without Jupiter, comet and asteroid impacts might have wiped out any life on Earth.

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  7. Evidence of ocean on Jupiter's moon Ganymede


    Data from the Galileo space probe suggest that liquid water may lie beneath Ganymede’s icy crust.

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