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...at the time communications took 52 minutes to reach earth at light speed.
Originally posted by berkeleygal
"All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there."
Intriguing
the probe was lost almost a hour before this, as it took some 52 minutes for Galileo's transmissions to reach earth.
Originally posted by pavelivanov22
reply to post by DJW001
By moon I did not mean our moon as you saw in the quoted text and article.
Originally posted by Misterlondon
Originally posted by Ittabena
reply to post by pavelivanov22
Arthur C. Clarke featured this fact in a couple of his books. This is not news. Sorry.
It was an interesting idea then and now though.edit on 18-11-2011 by Ittabena because: (no reason given)
Are you serious??? There is a clear difference between a science fiction writer's ideas and actual scientific discoveries..
Let him go back to writing more science fiction stories lol
This is actually very big news..
SpaceDaily
However, the probe was lost almost a hour before this, as it took some 52 minutes for Galileo's transmissions to reach earth.
Here we report an analysis of archival data from Europa, guided by processes observed within Earth's subglacial volcanoes and ice shelves. The data suggest that chaos terrains form above liquid water lenses perched within the ice shell as shallow as 3 kilometres.