We're on the Way to Europa

For anyone who doesn't know about the Clipper: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/ > "The Europa Clipper is a concept under study by NASA that would conduct detailed reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon Europa and would investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life."

Europa is a very interesting moon; the atmosphere has oxygen and there's an ice shell that could hide considerable amounts of water. Could there be microbial life?

On the sci fi side, here's a wikipedia article about terraforming Europa: http://goo.gl/KNDV82

Important note: > Europa receives about 540 rem a day (500 is already potentially fatal) from Jupiter's large radiation belts (10 times stronger than Earth's Van Allen radiation belts), and may prove a health threat to colonists. The satellite lacks a magnetosphere, which not only leaves it exposed to radiation by Jupiter, but to the solar wind.

Name it Discovery.

super excited for a Europa mission!

That's an interesting way to say "there's a line item in a budget that hasn't been passed".

ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE

But but... "All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace."