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DRoseDARs

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1. "in particular on the planet Mars" That's not how you spell Europa...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2019, 07:44 AM

Jan 2019

It's shameful Europa isn't mentioned even once given the moon is literally a water world and likely receives enough energy from tidal forces to maintain a liquid ocean many miles deep under an ice crust and black smokers billowing out mineral-rich water from the rocky crust deeper in.

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Hidden Beneath a Half Mile of Ice, Antarctic Lake Teems with Life [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2019 OP

"in particular on the planet Mars" That's not how you spell Europa... DRoseDARs Jan 2019 #1

Mars is probably featured to the exclusion of Europa because . . . MrModerate Jan 2019 #2