NASA Europa Missions, projects and proposals for the 2020s |
NASA Europa Missions, projects and proposals for the 2020s |
Mar 5 2014, 12:53 AM
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Mar 16 2014, 08:56 PM
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Yes, materials right on the surface of Europa would be fried by radiation, but such "frying" leaves a number of remnants which can tell you a lot about the original materials. Also, ice is an excellent radiation shield, so digging down into the ice less than a meter can give you examples of materials that haven't been fried. This also goes for hitchhiking terrestrial materials on a probe that happens to crash into Europa and are buried deeply enough in the ice to provide substantial radiation shielding.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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