New Scientist has a plan to beat ESA to Jupiter's moon with our own low-budget CubeSat space probe. We'll be looking for alien life – who's in?
WE'RE normally a patient lot at New Scientist. We know science takes time. Even so, we've been reporting on the possibility of life on Europa, Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon, since the mid-1990s. Now, two decades on, we're facing another 15 years or more until NASA or the European Space Agency visit it with a spacecraft capable of telling us more.
Frankly, we just can't wait that long to see what's out there. So we thought, why wait at all? It's the 21st century. Who leaves it to governments or international space agencies to fulfil their dreams? This is the age of do-it-yourself, crowdsourced everything. Hence the New Scientist mission to Europa. You're welcome.
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