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Bob Shaw
post Jan 27 2006, 06:54 PM
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QUOTE (Jeff7 @ Jan 27 2006, 02:57 AM)
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There we go

I wonder if there are any plans to gather samples from those lakes?
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Jeff:

It's been discussed, but would be very difficult to do without contaminating the lakes themselves. Even getting *near* the fluid water is hazardous, sadly (for the lakes). It may, however, be too late anyway, as drilling close by may already have penetrated the 'no go' zone required for a sterile investigation.

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post Feb 8 2006, 12:51 PM
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Newly Discovered Antarctic Lakes

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/...p3?img_id=17176

To quote:

"Scientists recently published the first thorough description of the size, depth, and origin of these two large lakes, called 90° East Lake (for its longitude) and Sovetskaya Lake (for the Russian research station that was unknowingly built over top it many years ago)."

Now I truly wonder how pristine at least the latter lake is.


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post Feb 17 2006, 04:23 PM
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and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Feb 23 2006, 03:55 PM
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THE PITS

- Deep Ocean Mining In Prospect

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Deep_Oce...n_Prospect.html

St Louis MO (SPX) Feb 19, 2006 - A Canadian geologist predicts the world is on
the brink of a new era of deep-ocean mining of mineral deposits. Steven Scott,
with the University of Toronto, said advances in marine geology and deep-ocean
technology have combined to make possible going more than two kilometers (about
6,000 feet) underwater for gold and other minerals, and two start-up
marine-mining companies - Nautilus Minerals and Neptune Minerals - are actively
exploring deep seafloor deposits.

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WATER WORLD

- Scientists Urge Responsible Deep Sea Vent Research

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Scientis...t_Research.html

St Louis MO (SPX) Feb 19, 2006 - Ocean scientists have asked the international
community to develop responsible research guidelines for deep sea vents, which
are among the world's most extreme ecosystems, but which are being studied more
frequently and could be damaged by human activities.


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I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Mar 6 2006, 09:38 PM
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Today's Planetary Radio podcast (Europa: Life Beneath the Ice?) is featuring an interview with Torrence Johnson, Chris McKay, and Bob Pappalardo.
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post Apr 4 2006, 08:17 PM
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Title: Exploring Europa's Ocean: A Challenge for Marine Technology of this Century

Authors: Carsey, F.
Chen, G.
Cutts, J.
French, L.
Kern, R.
Lane, A.
Stolorz, P.
Zimmerman, W.
Ballou, P.

Issue Date: 2000

Citation: Marine Technology Society Journal
Washington D.C., USA

Abstract: The Galileo spacecraft has sent back tantalizing image data hinting at a vast ocean beneath a thick ice crust on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons which is about the size of our moon.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/13849

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/handle/2014/13849


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and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Apr 20 2006, 11:19 AM
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ERS-2 helps detect massive rivers under Antarctica

British scientists have discovered rivers the size of the Thames in London
flowing hundreds of miles under the Antarctica ice shelf by examining small
changes in elevation, observed by ESA’s ERS-2 satellite, in the surface of the
oldest, thickest ice in the region, according to an article published in Nature
this week.

Full story at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEMA94OFGLE_planet_0.html


ICE WORLD

- Antarctic Subglacial Rivers Are Found

http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Antarcti..._Are_Found.html

London (UPI) Apr 20, 2006 - British scientists say plans are to drill beneath
the frozen wastes of the Antarctic, to investigate subglacial lakes, are being
reviewed.


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and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Apr 20 2006, 08:09 PM
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What is incredible is that, seemingly, it is the geothermal flux which makes all this ice melt. This geothermal flux seems something weak at human scale, but at the scale of a continent, it is enough to feed a large river of melting ice.
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As good a thread as any to post this new paper about surface sodium chloride on Europa implying this also exists in the ocean. The visiible wavelength yellowish color on parts of the surface is examined spectroscopically, and is distinct from other areas having more of a brownish color.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/6/eaaw7123


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Reminder to all that this is an older thread (ca. 2006), and rule 1.3 applies (last modified 2012).


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post Apr 19 2022, 10:13 PM
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Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa. ... Here we present the discovery and analysis of a double ridge in Northwest Greenland with the same gravity-scaled geometry as those found on Europa. Using surface elevation and radar sounding data, we show that this double ridge was formed by successive refreezing, pressurization, and fracture of a shallow water sill within the ice sheet. If the same process is responsible for Europa’s double ridges, our results suggest that shallow liquid water is spatially and temporally ubiquitous across Europa’s ice shell.


Culberg, R., Schroeder, D.M. & Steinbrügge, G. Double ridge formation over shallow water sills on Jupiter’s moon Europa. Nat Commun 13, 2007 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29458-3

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29458-3

The paper is discussed in an article published today in The Guardian. The title of the Guardian piece is inconsistent with forum rule 1.3, so I haven't included a link to it.

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