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Column: He kino wai ko Europa e ola ai ka lā make wai?

  • COURTESY NASA / JPL-CALTECH / SETI INSTITUTE
                                The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution.

    COURTESY NASA / JPL-CALTECH / SETI INSTITUTE

    The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. This is the color view of Europa from Galileo that shows the largest portion of the moon’s surface at the highest resolution.

Astronomers have seen streams of what appears to be water spouting out of Europa, one of the moons of Saturn. This suggests that life can be sustained there. It is an interesting discovery, but it does not justify desecrating sacred sites of Hawaiʻi with giant telescopes. Read more

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