Life on Jovian Moons?

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Life on Jovian Moons?

• HNRS 228 Lecture to supplement Chapter 8 of
  Bennett et al.
• by Prof. H. Geller

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What Im Talking About

• Outer solar system moons
• characteristics, rotation, tidal energy
• Europa
• water or not
• Ganymede and Callisto
• any water or life
• Titan and Others
• a ethane/methane sea?
• other possibilities

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Outer Solar System Moons
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Europa

• Is there liquid water below

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Ganymede and Callisto

• Comparing the Galilean Satellites

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Titan
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Titan Too
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Anything else in the Solar System?