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Looking for life on Europa (New report from NASA (Search directly for…
Looking for life on Europa
New report from NASA
Search directly for evidences for life
Analysing samples
Characterising its surface
Europa has unique characteristics,
making life possible
Huge saltwater ocean
Rocky seafloor
Get a lander to the surface
Attached to an automated "sky crane"
"Gentle touchdown on the surface"
Then sacrifice itself by crash landing
Instruments
Mass spectrometer
Sift through particles
Microscope
Search for microbial cells
Vibrational spectrometer
Molecular composition of samples
First NASA mission looking for life since the 1970s