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donzzler t1_issura1 wrote

Reply to comment by Dungeonmancer in The Europa Clipper mission may be as exciting as a manned mars mission and it’s only two years away by Wide-Escape-5618

I believe that the Cassini mission already did this

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Dungeonmancer t1_ist05gb wrote

I believe you're right.

There are other ways to collect seawater without risking contamination, is my point. There was also a plan to drill a core, allow it to fill up and freeze, then extract the ice from the tube and study it that way. I'm not sure what the precautions against contamination are, but NASA has a department dedicated to keeping earth microbes out of possible extraterrestrial systems.

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