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Originally Posted by publiusr
If you want to find life--have a cryobot use glider tech and go directly to the smokers and image them and take samples.
It's the only way to be sure.
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True, but if we could find the mix for life or simply intiguing chemical evidence in the ice atop it would better justify sending a more complicated (and therefore more prone to failure) mission.
Though true, that tubeworms don't wash up on shore here, plenty of other things
do. If life has truly caught hold on europa its byproducts will be everywhere and it will find its way into every possible crag, if earth is truly an accurate model to go by.