Last week, NASA announced the scientific instruments that will be put on board a spacecraft bound for Jupiter’s moon Europa in the next decade. This is a solid mission which will map the moon in incredible detail, including making 3D maps of the ice shell surrounding its undersurface ocean.
I’m pretty excited about this, which is why it’s the topic of this week’s Bad Astronomy Video:
I wrote about this briefly last week, and the discussion took a turn for the unexpected when I got a sharp reminder of the bizarre nature of sexism online. We can travel billions of kilometers and explore strange, new worlds, but we still have a long way to go to make ours better as well. I like to think we are smart enough and good enough to do both a the same time.
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