No, I didn’t just make up the makeup of this beguiling moon out of the thin thin atmosphere. Here’s some related factual basis for how I described the geology and frozen hydrosphere of this Jovian moon. From the Planetary Society:

Europa Mission Campaign

There may be life out there beyond our pale blue planet…life with no connection to us, life with an ancient history of its own, life that — if discovered — would rewrite natural history as we know it.


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