Big Picture Science – As the Worlds Turn: Britney Schmidt

by Gary Niederhoff on October 16, 2012

Part 2 of As the Worlds Turn, featuring Britney Schmidt, research scientist at the University of Texas, Austin, on finding an enormous ocean beneath the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa. Could it harbor life?
(TRT 8:02)


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						astrobiology, 
						Europa, 
						exploration, 
						Geology



			
				
					
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