Re: Expedition to Europa

On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:56:16 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

Carlos E.R. <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-06-27 20:39, Joe Gwinn wrote:

 
Excerpted from Aviation Week, June 3-16 2024, page 38:
 
Located more than five times farther away from the Sun than Earth,
Europa seems an unlikely place to look for life. Surface temperatures
on the ice-shrouded moon of Jupiter average |-260F, and radiation
levels are high enough to kill a human being in one day.

 
Being that far from the sun, where comes that radiation from?
 
 

>
Jupiter’s magnetosphere. See e.g.
<https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd1204>

Also plus radioactive elements in Europa's iron core and surrounding
ocean.

Joe Gwinn