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Roughly 100 km (62 miles)

Marsby — 2/28/2009 6:11:52 PM (archived)

Roughly the entire depth of Europa's ocean.

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Mark

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• Next Flagship: Europa - dtb - 2/19/2009 4:53:40 AM
  • Water Worlds Roughly To Scale - marsby - 3/1/2009 6:14:15 AM
    • Ceres (leftmost above) and Enceladus - marsby - 3/1/2009 6:16:40 AM
      • re: Ceres (leftmost above) and Enceladus Hopefully bigger - marsby - 3/1/2009 6:18:40 AM
  • outer mission planets ideal for nano technology advances - sawyer - 2/22/2009 3:22:28 PM
    • one other thing - sawyer - 2/22/2009 3:26:31 PM
  • Bookmark this thread. - Buck Galaxy - 2/21/2009 12:31:03 AM
    • Lander, probably not - dtb - 2/21/2009 1:28:49 PM
      • No lander is just plain stupid - Buck Galaxy - 2/22/2009 2:39:30 AM
        • No lander is just plain affordable - dtb - 2/22/2009 12:19:56 PM
          • Quadruple the cost? - Buck Galaxy - 2/22/2009 11:53:25 PM
            • much discussion at unmanned spaceflight - pwokenyaw - 2/23/2009 9:14:06 PM
              • Thanks! Extremely informative discussion (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/24/2009 8:00:39 PM
        • re: Yes! Very pleased about visiting Europa (not just life, but the pure science)!! What about an "impactor" instead? (n/t) - Vince - 2/22/2009 7:41:36 AM
          • Don't know if this rule still applies, but... - Socrates II - 2/22/2009 2:14:45 PM
  • Glass Half Full - Marsby - 2/20/2009 10:02:01 PM
    • re: Glass Half Full - pwokenyaw - 2/20/2009 11:05:20 PM
  • Europa is the next logical step - Socrates II - 2/19/2009 5:33:45 PM
    • As much as I love Titan... - Adam - 2/22/2009 9:51:26 AM
      • I Vote For Titan - REB - 2/23/2009 7:38:07 PM
        • How far down do we drill? - Adam - 2/28/2009 4:48:58 AM
          • Roughly 100 km (62 miles) - Marsby - 2/28/2009 6:11:52 PM
        • Titan's Water Mantle - Marsby - 2/27/2009 5:01:06 AM
          • How do you size this to all on one page? - Marsby - 2/27/2009 5:06:00 AM
      • Could the Huygens lander be modified for Europa? - Socrates II - 2/22/2009 2:21:57 PM
        • No atmosphere... - Adam - 2/23/2009 11:26:45 AM
          • Yikes - like I don't know Europa doesn't have much of an atmosphere - Socrates II - 2/23/2009 12:19:04 PM
            • Has everyone forgotten airbags? (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 2/23/2009 7:08:42 PM
              • At how many metres per second? - Adam - 2/23/2009 10:38:27 PM
                • re: At how many metres per second? - Buck Galaxy - 2/24/2009 6:23:31 PM