NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa

[Anomalism]

I bet we will find life on one of the ocean moons in our solar system.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/nasa-moves-ahead-mission-europa

NASA announced June 17 that it is forging ahead with its plans to send a spacecraft to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. The mission concept passed its first major review, giving engineers the green light to start working out the details. In May, mission leaders presented the suite of instruments that the probe will carry to the icy moon and its giant planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in the 2020s. Once in orbit around Jupiter, the craft will buzz Europa 45 times to snap pictures and probe the potentially habitable salt water ocean thought to lurk beneath the ice.

 

[JoshuaZ]

I bet we will find life on one of the ocean moons in our solar system.

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/nasa-moves-ahead-mission-europa

NASA announced June 17 that it is forging ahead with its plans to send a spacecraft to Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. The mission concept passed its first major review, giving engineers the green light to start working out the details. In May, mission leaders presented the suite of instruments that the probe will carry to the icy moon and its giant planet. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch in the 2020s. Once in orbit around Jupiter, the craft will buzz Europa 45 times to snap pictures and probe the potentially habitable salt water ocean thought to lurk beneath the ice.

This is really good. It isn't the full-scale search for life with drilling we need to do there, but it is a definite step in that direction.

 

[DA60]

Great...so long as private money pays for it and NOT taxpayer money.

Finding life on Europa would be very cool...but it does not effect the health of the United States.

These curiosity missions should be undertaken by the private sector on donations and sponsorship money and NOT via taxpayers hard earned funds.

 

[rhinefire]

Great...so long as private money pays for it and NOT taxpayer money.

Finding life on Europa would be very cool...but it does not effect the health of the United States.

These curiosity missions should be undertaken by the private sector on donations and sponsorship money and NOT via taxpayers hard earned funds.

The fed should help out here as the possibilities are endless.

 

[Anomalism]

Great...so long as private money pays for it and NOT taxpayer money.

Finding life on Europa would be very cool...but it does not effect the health of the United States.

These curiosity missions should be undertaken by the private sector on donations and sponsorship money and NOT via taxpayers hard earned funds.

The private sector cannot create the funds necessary because at this point in time there is no profit to be made. Not everything worth doing will turn a profit. I pity your lack of curiosity if you're not interested enough to be okay with some of your taxes funding NASA. We waste so much tax money on so many ridiculous things, and yet it is NASA that we can't afford to fund. :roll: Luckily millions of people disagree with you and completely support their taxes being spent on efforts to unlock the secrets of the universe.