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There Could Be Massive Shards of Ice Sticking Out of Jupiter's Moon Europa (sciencealert.com)
According to a report published in the journal Nature Geoscience, Jupiter's Moon Europa may be home to a forest of tall, jagged ice spikes, which may complicate future missions looking for possible alien microbes. ScienceAlert reports: Few moons in the Solar System are as intriguing as Jupiter's moon Europa. A global ocean of salt water almost certainly surrounds the moon - and it holds more water than any ocean on Earth. Above this immense sea, where surface temperatures dip to minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit (-184 degrees Celsius), a crust of water ice forms a shell. Astronomers predict that Jupiter, which bombards the moon with intense radiation, causes the entire moon to groan with gravity's tug. Europa's liquid water is a tempting target for future missions looking for possible alien microbes. But before a future lander can search for microscopic ET, the probe might have to contend with a forest of tall, jagged ice spikes. Their research suggests Europa is an icy hedgehog world, covered in ice formations rarely found on Earth. On our planet, ice takes several forms, as varied as needle ice, rime, parking lot slush and more exotic lumps.
Attempt no landings there.
Why oh why couldn't it be "Massive Shards of Ice Sticking Out of Uranus". :-P
It is of no concern to anyone. What I'm concerned about is that soon there'll be no outdoor ice anywhere on Earth.
Chicken Little called. He wants his OMFG! THE SKY IS FALLING (AGAIN! AND AGAIN!!!) meme back.
And that's exactly why no one takes the fucking alarmists seriously any more.
They've been "Chicken Littles" for the past 30 fucking years. Literally.
The ever-receding "deadlines":
1982, 20 years: "Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the UN Environment Program (UNEP), warned on May 11, 1982, that the “world faces an ecological disaster as final as nuclear war within a couple of decades unless governments act now.”"
1989 - 10 years: "Noel Brown, the then-director of the New York office of UNEP was warning of a “10-year window of opportunity to solve” global warming. According to the Herald, “A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000."
2007, 5 years: "Rajendra Pachauri, then the chief of the UN IPPC, declared 2012 the climate deadline by which it was imperative to act: “If there’s no action before 2012, that’s too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine our future. This is the defining moment.”"
The warmists have blown their credibility. DEAL WITH IT.
So basically, it's a Minecraft Ice Spikes biome?
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
"...exotic lumps."
And I have my new deathmatch name.
Always had it. We have been coming out of the last ice age since before recorded history. Please stop being an ignorant fuck who learns everything from TV and read a real book from real historians or scientists. Hint: if they have given press quotes, showed up on tv, signed some UN document or taken part in some other partisan crap they are activists with an axe to grind, not academics.
Real science follows the scientific method. Faux climate science does not and can not adhere to the SM.
But you keep on keeping on with your ignorance and arrogance.
From TFA: On Earth, the sublimation of massive ice deposits at equatorial latitudes under cold and dry conditions in the absence of any liquid melt leads to the formation of spiked and bladed textures eroded into the surface of the ice.
That sounds like something that's going on today, but AFAIK, the last time the Earth's equatorial latitudes were the sites of "massive ice deposits" was about 700 million years ago.
"All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings here."
And mankind is an ice age species. Let's not speed it up.
The Europaeans stole our ice and we want it back!
Good name for a rock band
The first vessel to discover America was from Europe, and the first probe to visit Europa was from America. It's a draw.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
And if a shill's saying it, it must be true.
Lol, omg, even if all the crap the Marxists ...
Does this contempt and calling names suppose to make your arguments stronger or is it just filling in the lack of substance?
The article very specifically states that only equatorial conditions would allow large shards, leaving the rest of the moon free of them.
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'Massive' is a subjective description. 1 meter, 100 meters, 1 kilometer?
That was better, at least funny.
So any images of exoplanets, black holes or any surface except the mentioned above are artists impressions.
Well, technically, due to how physics work, it will never be possible to make an image of a black hole. There's no such thing existing.
What you could take pictures of is the gavitational lensing (Einstein ring) caused by the presence of a black hole (well, that peculiar photo is a super-massive black hole AND all the surrounding galaxy at the core of which said hole sits, causing the photograph-able mirage together. But you got the idea).
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