Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Phil Hobbs Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Expedition to Europa Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 01:56:16 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <63br7jpf7le468rnljlfhaol4432dt70lq@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:56:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4b19e197b473f2903f59d45d84e3b2c1"; logging-data="3294685"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4ah2aBaZ1yCdmvxb/rGOi" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q/B2cK5qhgQUDdlQbgh8bjmVZKo= sha1:qayVvvMv+x3xk5d3W5AJtOFAv4c= Bytes: 1837 Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 2024-06-27 20:39, Joe Gwinn wrote: >> >> Excerpted from Aviation Week, June 3-16 2024, page 38: >> >> Located more than five times farther away from the Sun than Earth, >> Europa seems an unlikely place to look for life. Surface temperatures >> on the ice-shrouded moon of Jupiter average |-260F, and radiation >> levels are high enough to kill a human being in one day. > > Being that far from the sun, where comes that radiation from? > > Jupiter’s magnetosphere. See e.g. Cheers Phil Hobbs -- Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC / Hobbs ElectroOptics Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics