Tides and the Biosphere of Europa

By Richard Greenberg

A liquid-water ocean beneath a thin crust of ice may offer several habitats for the evolution of life on one of Jupiter's moons

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January-February 2002

Volume 90, Number 1
Page 48

DOI: 10.1511/2002.13.48

The Copernican revolution began over 500 years ago with the realization that the Earth was not the center of the universe, but we still await its grand finale: The anticipated discovery of life elsewhere. Where else might we find life?

Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA

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