AaS! 39: Is there life on Europa?
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 6 September 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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What’s going on under the ice of Europa? What keeps it so warm down there? Are the oceans pure or have the right chemistry for life? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 0:00.0 | You know what time it is. It's time for Ask a Space man. I'm your host, Paul Sutter. You've got questions and I've got answers. You know how this show works, but let's discover it one more time. Go online, |
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| 0:35.2 | Also, you can visit Ask aSpaceman.com. There's my website, has all the show notes. |
| 0:41.3 | You can comment on the shows. You can also have discussions there if you feel like it. Maybe I'll |
| 0:46.8 | respond. Maybe I won't. Depends on my mood on that day. We have one simple goal with this show. |
| 0:53.1 | Complete knowledge of time and space. And don't forget, |
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| 1:03.9 | support it. Patreon.com slash PM Sutter. Kick in a couple bucks a month. That's all it takes to |
| 1:09.4 | keep this show going. Now, on the road, |
| 1:11.7 | I don't want to waste any time because this is such an exciting topic. It's a topic that I |
| 1:17.5 | personally geek out about a lot, and I try to contain my enthusiasm. So I'll try not to |
| 1:24.8 | shout. Maybe I need to turn down the microphone level for this episode because I might just get all shouting and excited. It's about life. It's about life not on earth. One of the most profound fundamental questions of our entire human existence are we alone? I have no idea. We're not going to answer |
| 1:50.4 | that question on this show, but we're going to talk about some related questions. Specifically, |
| 1:55.7 | Robert M on Facebook asks about Europa. And he asks about the pressure of water in these supposed oceans of Europa and Enceladus. |
| 2:05.6 | Kieran Pian on Facebook asked, what could we discover on Europa and or Enceladus? |
| 2:13.6 | If we were to actually go there, what would we find? |
| 2:16.6 | And on Twitter at Abguntha asked me to |
| 2:21.1 | compare Europa's atmosphere to Mars and the challenges of putting a lander there. So I took these |
| 2:28.3 | questions kind of, and I kind of asked my own question, a more fundamental question, just is there |
| 2:33.7 | life or is the |
| 2:35.2 | pot is there the possibility of life on Europa, on Enceladus on one of these other moons? |
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