"Hubble Spots Recurring Water Vapor Plume Erupting on..." Topic

… Jupiter's Moon Europa

"In the most recent observation, on February 22, 2016, Hubble uncovered a dark patch, silhouetted against Jupiter and protruding slightly off the surface at Europa's equatorial region.

The dark feature is not only in the same location but is also similar in appearance to the one seen in a previous study of Europa, taken March 17, 2014.

The newly imaged plume rises about 62 miles (100 km) above Europa's surface, while the one observed in 2014 was estimated to be about 30 miles (50 km) high…"

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Amicalement
Armand

Well, yes, isn't that what Space Odyssey 2010 was all about? The race to get to Europa first. The Chinese "won", iirc, and their ship was pulled into the frozen ocean by some tentacled thingorother………

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Amicalement
Armand

No one would have believed, in the last years
of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being
watched from the timeless worlds of space.

No one could have dreamed we were being scrutinized, as
someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm
and multiply in a drop of water. Few men even considered
the possibility of life on other planets and yet, across
the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours
regarded this Earth with envious eyes,
and slowly and surely, they drew their plans against us.

At midnight, on the twelfth of August, a huge mass of
luminous gas erupted from Mars and sped towards Earth.
Across two hundred million miles of void, invisibly hurtling
towards us, came the first of the missiles that were to
bring so much calamity to Earth. As I watched, there was
another jet of gas. It was another missile, starting on its way.

And that's how it was for the next ten nights.
A flare, spurting out from Mars – bright green,
drawing a green mist behind it – a beautiful,
but somehow disturbing sight.
Ogilvy,the astronomer, assured me we were in no danger.
He was convinced there could be no living thing,
on that remote, forbidding planet.

Hmmm, just replace'Mars' with 'Europa' and, dunh dunh dahh!!

I have that CD set. How did they get Richard Burton to do it? Perhaps he did it as a fan thing.

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I have that CD set. How did they get Richard Burton to do it?

Jeff Wayne paid him?