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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by maxxxxx on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:17PM (#18947970)
That's all stuff we can try out on Earth first. Maybe build a rover that explores the whole of Antarctica or the Sahara autonomously. There is this idea of sending a submarine to Europa, melt it through the ice, explore the ocean and then come back up. It would be really cool but first we need to do this on Earth.
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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by kakarot on Saturday January 19, 2019 @12:35PM (#18948083)
Biological contamination is absolutely critical. We fucked up Lake Vostok and that was in our own back yard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Vostok

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Re:NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moo... by Something1234 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @10:34PM (#18950828)
Stupid question why don't we flood space craft with like everclear to steralize them? Not much could survive a bath of everclear.
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