From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 11:47:53 PDT
http://www.space.com/spacelibrary/books/library_beyond_040611.html If you could visit first-hand any of the alien landscapes depicted in Beyond, where would it be?
Plus Europa's just a beautiful thing: a pearl in space. And imagine the views of Jupiter from there. Too bad the radiation levels would kill a human being within hours, even if his spacesuit could protect him from the incredible cold. But that's one advantage of our robots going "beyond" us, isn't it?
Do you have a favorite photograph; one particular image that stands out among the rest?
Yes, it's certainly the 60-frame mosaic<http://www.kinetikonpictures.com/books/purchase-prints.htm> of Europa above Jupiter's immense storm systems on pages 240-240. It was taken by Voyager 1 on March 3rd, 1979. I'm very proud of having discovered this vista, which took much assembly and care in Photoshop.
Should humans eventually follow their mechanical offspring into space, snapping photos of Europa and such?
Oh, absolutely. With the right radiation shielding! Where do I sign?
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: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 12:18:02 PDT
Certainly Europa - Jupiter's bizarre oceanic moon. I think this is the single most fascinating object in the Solar System. Why? Not just because its surface looks like an abstract expressionist painting, Jackson Pollock projected on a sphere, but also because of its cryptic smile. Because Europa's amazingly fissured surface hides a real mystery, and that is: what is going on underneath the ice? Is there life in that ocean?