Watch here: http://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency's Hubble Space Telescope of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa.
Astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean on Europa.
NASA currently plans to perform additional flybys of Europa and put a lander on the surface as part of the Europa Clipper mission. The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer will also fly by Europa twice, but focus on Ganymede.
There's something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa. But what?
NASA teased a "surprising" announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space Telescope images of the celestial body, which many experts believe could contain a subsurface ocean, even possibly some form of life.
The US space agency has already proclaimed that Europa has "strong evidence for an ocean of liquid water beneath its crust and which could host conditions favorable for life."
At Monday's announcement, "astronomers will present results from a unique Europa observing campaign that resulted in surprising evidence of activity that may be related to the presence of a subsurface ocean," it said in a statement.
The announcement will be made at a news conference at 2 pm (1800 GMT) Monday featuring Paul Hertz, NASA's director of astrophysics, and William Sparks, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
(Score: 1) by fritsd on Monday September 26 2016, @01:24PM
If you look carefully at the € 2 coin for Greece [europa.eu], you can see Europa riding her bull.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Thexalon on Monday September 26 2016, @01:48PM
More specifically, that's Zeus turned into a bull with the goal of scoring with Europa. Which makes her "riding" the bull take on entirely new meaning. One of the things you learn when studying Greek mythology is that it has all of what George W Bush accidentally referred to as "exquisite sex and wholesome violence that underscores our values."
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Monday September 26 2016, @02:10PM
That seems to have been a Saturday Night Live skit.
http://ynucc.yeungnam.ac.kr/~bwlee/esc/bgdebate_prd.htm [yeungnam.ac.kr]
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Monday September 26 2016, @02:46PM
It was used by SNL, but it was also a real quote.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @04:53PM
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday September 29 2016, @12:46PM
I didn't find anything credible on the Web. A request was made on Wikiquote in 2008 but no one had a source.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:George_W._Bush#Fake_SNL_quote [wikiquote.org]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Webweasel on Monday September 26 2016, @05:03PM
https://imgur.com/gallery/7KxmNhH [imgur.com]
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